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Show HOBtNSOX. He is After t!m Central Pacific Kailroud Compauj. And lints K(aiiorI. Jlnnt-iuulon Jlnnt-iuulon mid Other to Oiforzc. San Francisco, 15. J. R. Robinson of this city, by his attorneys, A. A. Cohen and Deios Lake, will to-day tile a complaint in the Fourth district court against the Central Pacific ra.lroad Contract and Finance coru-par.j coru-par.j Leopold Stanford, C. P. Huntington, Hunt-ington, Mirk Hopkins, C. Crocker, and all tlie corporations controlled by them. Tho complaint allegC3 that tho plaintiff is a stockholder in the Central Pacific railroad; that the defendants in building the road fraudulently fraud-ulently made contracts with themselves them-selves in the name of the Contract and Finance company at excessive rates, and by other dishonest practices prac-tices themselves absorbed the gain? arising from the subsidies, land I grants, elc. The complaint reiterates iat length many instances of fraud u-I u-I lent practices ot defendants and geue- rally charges fraud and embezzlement I in tne conduct of the affairs of the corporation. The plaintiff alleges I that the amount of Block held by him I would properly entitle him to $1,200,-U00 $1,200,-U00 in money and 100,000 acres of land. He prays for a receiver, for the removal of tiie present board ot idirectors, and that all their property, I except that held by them previous to 'obtaining tho control of railroad uflairs be decr-ed the property of the corporation. It is asserted that tho suit will be pressed to trial, and that the evidence adduced will form a valuable addition to the inside history of the Central Pacific and the Contract Con-tract and Finance company's affairs. |