Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court arbitrarily applied Geneva Civil Procedure Code art. 126 by disregarding the late allegation of no dividend distributions.
Extracted holding
No. The allegation was untimely under the cantonal event-driven pleading rule, and exclusion of the late fact was not arbitrary.
Extracted reasoning
The appellant knew from the outset that no dividends had been distributed. Under art. 126 LPC/GE, facts had to be pleaded before evidentiary proceedings; introducing the point only later would have unfairly deprived the opponent of the chance to address it.