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Legal Complaint: Alfred Cohen v. Central Pacific Railroad Company, 1876Legal Complaint: Alfred Cohen v. Central Pacific Railroad Company, 1876

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.