Wabash Railway Co. v. Barclay

How courts have described this case

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• further noting that dividend payments are “in the first instance at least a matter for the directors to determine”
• “When a man buys stock instead of bonds he takes a greater risk in the business. No one suggests that he has a right to dividends if there are no net earnings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).