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a Since 1866, June.

3 q Have you been practising all that time?

a Ever since.

4 q Do you know anything concerning a suit
that was brought in the District Court of the
Fifteenth Judicial District of the State of
California, in and for the City and County
of San Francisco, entitled "Samuel Brannan
against the Central Railroad Company of
California and others?

a Yes, sir: I was the attorney of record in that case.

5 q Will you state what became of the two hundred
shares of stock mentioned in paragraph six
of the complaint?

a That passed by the decree in the divorce case of
Eliza Brannan against Samuel Brannan
to Mrs. Brannan. It was set "out"[crossed out]off to
her as a part of the common property.

6 q Do you know to whom that stock was sold, and
what was paid for it?

a I do not of my own knowledge. All I know is;
the stock parsed under that decree, and I was
a mere "locum tenens"[underlined] in the case for some
months and years, I think.

7 q Did you ever see the stock?

a I think I did.

8 q Do you know what company it was in?

a I think the original two hundred shares were
of the Eight and a half millions capital issue.
x of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California
I saw that. I know the history of that. I think
that was passed to Mr. Tillinghast's Bank, "or the Bank of British Columbia"[written above text] "right
under your old office."[all crossed out] Then there was an
increase of Capital; then he got a new
certificate of stock. I do not know that except

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