I know very well that they may, in the last resort, be obliged to go to the courts; but I know that it will be more difficult for the Company to exclude them in the face of a positive statute than when their rights are simply founded on inference.
Sumner emphasizes the importance of clear legal statutes to protect rights against corporate exclusion.
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