Almega organized under the laws of State S, has outstanding twenty thousand shares of $100 nonvoting preferred stock calling for noncumulative dividends of $5 per year; ten thousand shares of voting preferred stock with $50 calling for cumulative dividends of $2.50 per year; and ten thousand shares of no par common stock. State S has adopted the earned surplus test for all distributions. As of the end of 2009, the had no earned surplus. In 2010, the had net earnings of $170,000; in 2011, $135,000; in 2012, $60,000; in 2013, $210,000; and in 2014, $120,000. The board of directors passed over all dividends during the four years from 2010 through 2013, because the company needed working capital for expansion purposes. In 2014, however, the directors declared on the noncumulative preferred shares a of $5 per share, on the cumulative preferred stock a of $12.50 per share, and on the a of $30 per share. The board submitted its declaration to the voting shareholders, and they ratified it. Before the dividends were paid, Payne, the record holder of five hundred shares of the noncumulative preferred stock, brought an appropriate action to restrain any payment to the cumulative preferred or common shareholders until the company paid to noncumulative preferred shareholders a full for the period from 2010 to 2013. Decision? What is the maximum lawful that may be paid to the owner of each share of common stock?
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