Respective Rights of Preferred and Common Stockholders in Surplus Profits

Authors

George Jarvis Thompson, University of Pittsburgh Law School

Abstract

The movement in the field of co5perative commercial undertakings has been; school-book-like, a movement from the simple to the complex, from the common-la* sitaation of persons associating together to conduct a busines for profit to the modern statutory association and the corporation possessing an enormous capital ,derived from a host of individuals whose respective interests are represented -by various -classes -of transferable shares.

Recommended Citation

George J. Thompson, Respective Rights of Preferred and Common Stockholders in Surplus Profits, 19 Mich. L. Rev. 463 (1921).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol19/iss5/1