Wallin v. Johnson City Lumber & Mfg. Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM WASHINGTON. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Washington County. — Hal. H. Haynes, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the Court
Mu. Justice Williams
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case, standing on bill and demurrer, involves the right of complainants, Wallin and others, to recovery of the defendant corporation portions of a dividend claimed to have been declared.
The bill alleges that in January, 1916, when complainants were the owners of the shares of stock on which they seek to pro rata, at a regular annual.meeting of the board of directors a dividend was declared and set aside to ■ the stockholders holding stock at that time, of $2,600,' or 17.8 per cent.; that said dividend was declared and set apart in…
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- Wheeler v. Northwestern Sleigh Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin · 1889
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- Northwestern Marble & Tile Co. v. CarlsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1912
- Bright v. LordIndiana Supreme Court · 1875
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