This document is a legal complaint filed in 1876 in the 12th District Court, San Francisco, California. Plaintiff Alfred Cohen, a capitalist and lawyer, sued the Central Pacific Railroad Company for $106,306 in damages. The complaint stems from a dispute following Cohen's sale of the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad Company's line to the Central Pacific Railroad Company. The controversy lasted several years.
Subject: 19th Century California
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A one-page letter, dated November 3, 1850, from J. M. Jones, a lawyer in San Jose, California, to Judge Henry A. Lyons in San Francisco. Jones urges Lyons for an immediate response to a legal opinion request, emphasizing its urgency.