Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-14

ceny; held to answer to Superior Court
under $500 bonds.
People VS.. T. A. Gomez-Battery dis
missed on payment Of costs.
| SET FOR MONDAY.
People vs.. F. A. Allen-Disturbing the
peace; judgment of sentence at 10.
People VS.. Gray Phelps-Fraud; ex.
| animation at 10.
Mcclellan VS.. Owen-triat at PPM.
New Cases.
A complaint was filed yesterday alleg-
ing that on or about January L, 1888,
VIM. L. Maurice and John E. Brownlee
entered into partnership for the pur-
pose of propagating and buying and SELL
ing young orange trees and other fruit
trees, on land furnished them for the
purpose near the town of San Fernando,
by the Porter Land and Water Company.
They made considerable outlay in
stock. working animals and utensils for
conducting the business, and all went
we'll for few months. but by and by
it became evident that the partnership
was not mutually agreeable. Maurice
alleges that in July Brownlee took charge
of the books and debarred him from ex-
ercising equal rights with him in the con-
duct of the business. Furthermore
Brownlee persuaded him that if Maurice
would transfer all of his interests in the
business to Brownlee, by bill of sale,
he (Brownlee) could make trade with
the Land and Water. Company by which
the partnership would reap large profits;
and that Maurice was SO unpopular with
the Land and Water Company that if his
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trade could not be made. On these re-
gave Brownlee a bill of sale for his
interests, without receiving any consid-
GRAFTON therefor other than Brownlee's
Maurice alleges that the trade was made
sery property for certain lots of land and
other concessions, aggregating in value
about $1,000; that Brownlee had the
deed for the land executed in the name
OF his wife, and also transferred all his
leaving him (Maurice) without any BEN
accordance with these allegations Maui
rice has entered suit against the Brown.
lees in the Superior Court to enjoin them
hOhA thO AcO Va VAlO PiOPCIty tuu6 dC-
quired, and asking the Court to dissolve
the partnership and appoint receiver to
hold the property until an equitable dis
tribution is made. The complaint
charges Brownlee with deliberate fraud
and an attempt to cheat Maurice out of
his interest in the business. Brownlee
is also charged with collecting bills due
the firm and appropriating the same to
his individual use, without making
proper accounting for the same.
John Collins has brought action
against Geo. G. Hopkins ct al, the own
ers of the Beatrice, Monitor and Layless
mining claims in San Bernardino county,
for his salary as superintendent of the
mines from September /, 1887, to August
1, 1888, at 500 month.
The San Pedro Lumber Company has
made complaint on the foreclosure of
mechanics lien for $3,325.63 against the
Seabright improvement Company for
materials furnished for building on lot
10 of the Seabright townsite.
Geo. T. Vail has commenced suit
against Robert Turner and wife and San
ford Johnson to foreclose mortgage for
$6 900 on two-acre lot in the Gotta tract.
John j.. Jones has filed action against
f. F. Davis to foreclose on a number of
lots in the city sold by Jones to Davis,
on which payment, to the amount of
1874, are alleged to be due. Albert
Carter, the Evening Express Company
and the Tribune Publishing Company
are also parties to the defense, inasmuch
as they claim some interest in the in
volved property.