The herald., 1895-02-16
JEFFERSON|AN CLUB SUED
Asked to Pay the Rent for
Valuable Furniture
DID THEY DANCE ON TT
Nothing Daunted the Officers of the
Club Demur With Spirit
The Court Has No Jurisdiction Because nost
Defendants Are Residents of Salt
River Township

Clifford & Magnus, second hand furni-
ture dealers, have commenced an action
against the officers of defunct political
club, which was known as the Jeffersoni-
ian Democratic Club of Los Angeles, and
the papers are now on file in the Town
ship Justice Court. The names of thirty
eight of the heavy weights of local Dem
ocracy appear in the complaint, to-wit:
Joseph M. Kinley, tombstone Jones' W..
e. Young, William Fitzgerald, Charles
Hamilton, W. G. Miller, NJ. Morris,
Charles L. Cruz, John Delaney, W. H.
Workman, Samuel Prayer Ernest Fleur,
L. Mesnager, J. Last, Jake Adolf, H. H.
Anderson, T. J. Cuddy, NJ. G. Marsh, R.
W. Ready, John Malone W. NJ. Conklin,
J. H. Foley, J. H. Melville, Conrad Jaco-
by. Louis Roeder, DR.. Joseph Hurts,
Miguel Marques, A. G. Sanchez NJ. p.
Richardson, Robert Markham, DR.. Gail
hol Celestin Save. n. c. Bledsoe, j. b.
Cohn, DIR. Nadeau, D. Finucane and Re-
fugio Bilderrain.
But it is alleged that the defendants are
100 numerous that it is impracticable to
bring them all to the notice of the honor
able court, so the host is left off with a
brief mention of the Richard Roe and
John Doe category.
In the latter part of last year the club
was constituted with the idea of main
tanning a permanent Democratic organi-
sation with established headquarters.
reading room and other facilities. Messrs.
Clifford & Magnus aver that in order to
obtain all these comforts it was necessary
to furnish the headquarters with large
and valuable quantities of carpets, rugs,
furniture, desks, lamps, chairs and tables.
These could all be found at the second
hand emporium. The numerous defend
fINa dc atrsaa tod
with Messrs. Clifford & Magnus to rent
the needed furniture at monthly rental
of $3.50. But all that the Jeffersonians
ever paid was $40, and the plaintiffs
ask for $3.50 additional, which is still due
them.
But this was not all. In violation of the
contract made between the parties the
furniture was to have been returned in
good condition, ordinary wear and tear
tear excepted, at the time the Jeffersonan
Club did not consider itself any longer a
necessary adjunct in the politics of the
nation. Instead of doing so, the tables,
chairs and other valuable secondhand
articles of vertu were hustled back to the
store in such q careless way that they were
Clipped, cracked, torn and frayed to the
tune of SIS. ~.
And now Clifford & Mangus demand
$3.50 from the Jeffersonians who are still
in the flesh or IN the county. Yet some
of the defendants were served with the
summons and a copy of the complaint,
and they have interposed demurrer to it.
After covering a number of statutory
grounds, defendants further allege that
the Township Justice Court has no juris-
diction over the defendants because some
of them have resided in Salt River town.
ship since the last general election. The
complaint also is defective because Grover
Cleveland is not made party to the
cause.
Said complaint is also ambiguous be-
cause it alleges that the defendants are so
numerous as to make it impracticable to
bring them all in the court room, whereas,
as Justice of the Peace Young will take
judicial notice, Democrats are awfully
scarce. The action, defendants allege,
should be barred by the provisions of sec
ton six OF the act to promote purity of
elections.
Another very weighty ground upon
which the defendants base their demurrer
is that from the intimations thrown out
in the complaint it would appear that
plaintiffs furniture was danced upon and
a general hilarious old time had thereon,
and the court is asked to take judicial no.
tice that only the Jonathan Club or the
Union League Club have been guilty of
such conduct at the particular time indi-
Gated by Messrs. Clifford & Magnus.
Wherefore the thirty-eight heavy
weights OF the Jefferson Club pray that
the plaintiffs get soup. Ext