The San Francisco call., 1895-07-19
WANTS SIXTY THOUSAND,
That Is the Sum j. P. McElroy
Says j. G. Jordan Owes
Him.
ALL FOR LEGAL SERVICES
Interesting Reading Furnished by
the Voluminous and Specific
Complaint.

James G. McElroy wants to collect $50 600
from James G. Jordan for legal services
| performed.
As step in the direction of securing the
| money he has attached the Jordan Tract.
| comprising about 81 acres, or 500 lots, and
valued somewhere in the vicinity of a
81. .0O0. 900, last week. The tract is immedi-
! ately west of Laurel Hill Cemetery.
| Mr.. Jordan says the suit is the part of a
blaokmailing scheme to extort money
| from him that he does not owe. He further
| states that he gave McElroy employment.
| Mr.. McElroy says he delivered the goods
his ability and legal services-and is now
| simply trying to collect a just and equit-
| able claim for their value.
IL corroboration of the business of his
| claim and the propriety of his present po-
| sition as $50, 900 plaintiff he refers 20 the
offer he made Millionaire Jordan to have
| the claim arbitrated by disinterested law
yer and business man, both TO be appointed
| by Judge Coffey. Mr.. Jordan, he says, de-
clined the proposition on the ground that
all legal gentlemen are stuck together
with shoemakers'' wax, and that he would
have nothing TO do with any arbitrating
| arrangement in which an attorney was in
| the remotest degree concerned.
McElroy's suit against Jordan is for
| 5O,00O and he also brings suit to collect
| $4,000 from the Jordan Bituminous Rock
| and Street Paving Company for legal SER
vices rendered. When questioned closer
as to the specific nature of the services
rendered in the interest of Defendant Jor-
| dan he referred the inquirer to the COM
| plant prepared by Dunn & McPike.
| According to this complaint Mr.. McEl-
roy was in the employ of James G. Jordan
| from 1890 to the latter part of Janu-
| ary, 1895.
"He at first employed me-" says the
| plaintiff in his complaint, ito obtain a di-
vorce from his first wife, Helen G. Jordan
He had been endeavoring to secure a
separation for several years, and he was in
doubt whether he could obtain it at all !:
| that his wife's people had kept detectives
on his track and had discovered certain
| things against him, and it was therefore
doubtful whether he could succeed in get
ting divorce. He was anxious to get a
divorce because, he said, he was a wan
derer on the face of the earth, without q
family and business, and that he could
not engage in business on account of his
| wife's interest in property. Hence his
reasons for wishing to get the divorce.
After looking over statements he fur
nished me I decided that 1t would be
necessary to go to Boston to secure the
necessary evidence, and / told him
would charge him $500 for the trip whether
/ was successful or not. To that he agreed.
l remained in Boston about one month.
His father, who is multo-millionaire, had
to be consulted, and the whole founda-
ton of operations had to be changed. The
matter was finally continued to June, 1891,
and the character of work performed to
rescue Jordan from the result of the false
steps he had taken in the matter was
worth $50, 900.
IA few days after the divorce was
granted he gave me $1,000, saying that
must be satisfied with that for pay ment in
the divorce matter, as he would have a
great deal of work for me in future, and
he expected to pay me well. / accepted
this, with the understanding that he
then had on hand. / frequently reminded
him of this understanding-frst about
two years ago, and again in July, 1898,
when he signed an agreement to waive
| the statutes of limitation and made me a
payment of several hundred dollars
The complaint, which covers thirty odd
pages of typewriter matter, goes on to
specify the numerous cases in which the
| plaintiff was engaged in Jordan's service,
among them suits brought by the Carnall-
Fitzhugh- Hopkins Company and Warren
| Il O'Malley. After particularizing in the
suits mentioned, the complaint con-
tinues:
zone Macomber Jordan's private secre-
| tary and roommate, was privately consplr-
| ing with Jordan's enemies to get the bet
| ter Of him and defraud him out of the Jor-
| protecting my client against the subtle
Vaccinations of his enemies, open and
secret.
SIN December, 1891, he consulted. me as
| to the advisability OF marrying again, and
| in January, 1892, he returned from Boston
with his second wife. In April, 1892, I
went to Boston with him again, as his
| former wife had complicated matters there
| by signing deeds to property in bFarming-
| ham, Mass. fixed his affairs so that he
| sold his house on Beacon street for
$4,000"
Charges for numerous htigations and
various services follow. The complaint sets
| forth that plaintiff was before the Oakland
| City Council on divers occasions, that he
Francisco banks to raise $50 600 for his
client, and played the part of peacemaker
between plaintiff and his present wife
when the latter threatened toleave him.
"At the wife's request" the complaint
recitss, II went in search of Jordan for two
days, and tried to get him to return to the
house. 1t took me two days and two
nights TO ADJUST the iaHlly Olnculty
which charge of $500 is itemized. "In
February, 1885, brought about second
marriage service, as there was some doubt
as to the legality of the ceremony performed
in Boston,"
Other items of less importance are speci-
fed in the complaint, including the one of
$40 900 for bringing about the organization
OF the Jordan Bituminous Rock and Street
Paving Company, and acting in a legal
capacity for the company during an ex-
tended period.
Mr.. McElroy supplements his formal
allegations with the assertion that he was
instrumental in saving his clients life, as
he was threatened with dire disaster and
destruction at the hands of ]. T. Carnali,
who was connected with the Fitzhugh-
Hopkins Company. That gentleman, he
says, wanted to accelerate Mr.. Jordan's
shutting off this mortal coil, and
plaintiff was under great strain in keep
ing a watchful eye over his clients safety
and welfare.
And he wants $4,000 for all this and
more that is not recorded.
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With Two Sets of Teeth.
Itmust be valuable mechanism, indeed,
which fulflls the service claimed for a