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Description
Legal Documents relating to lawsuits resulting from Central Pacific Railroad stock manipulation. Attorney Alfed A. Cohen appears to have played a major role in these cases, and likely owned these documents. Individual stockholders in these cases received reduced or no dividends from their holdings, or were persuaded to sell their stocks back to the railroad at below value. San Joaquin County had subscribed to stock in the Western Pacific Railroad, and at the time of this road's merger into the Central Pacific the county's stocks seemingly disappeared. In two of these lawsuits the plantiffs attempted to put the Central Pacific Railroad under State of California operation, and to bankrupt its former owners. In addition this collection contains documents from the United States Pacific Railway Commission 1887 investigation into the financial practices of railroads that received federal funding for their construction, and also papers documenting 1887 arbitration over pooled earning distribution between the Southern Pacific and Texas & Pacific railroads under the Huntington-Gould Agreement. Box 3882: Stockholder lawsuits; Box 3883: United States Pacific Railway Commission investigation; Box 3884: Huntington-Gould Agreement arbitration. Central Pacific. Unrestricted . Please credit California State Library. California State Library, California History Room
Type
text
Extent
1 manuscript box ; 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 3 in. 2 manuscript boxes ; 5 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 3 in.
Identifier
(C)001546448CSL01-Aleph (OCoLC)912441589
Language
English
Subject
Aspinwall, William Cohen, Alfred A. (Alfred Andrew), 1829-1887 Colton, Ellen M Crocker, Charles, 1822-1888 Huntington, Collis Potter,, 1821-1900 Robinson, John R Stanford, Leland, 1824-1893 Stewart, David Central Pacific Railroad Company United States. Pacific Railway Commission Texas & Pacific Railway Western Pacific Railroad Company Investigations--United States Governmental investigations San Joaquin County (Calif.)
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