The San Francisco call., 1896-06-06
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Attorney Freidenrich, with a look of
WEAKNESS upon his face, announced that
he understood Clunie's purpose in intro
ducing the receipts.
HE is starting off on new tack Frei-
denrlch declared. "His purpose is merely
to delay matters. He hopes bv exhaust
lively examining all these tax receipts to
delay further progress until the Supreme
Court shall have given decision in the
contempt matter. Doubtless when he
gets through with the receipts he will go
through the inventories, and take up eyerv
item separately"
Clunie resented Mr.. Freidenrich's state
meut about ''going off on a new tack"
II a m not going off on any tack" declared
the lrate Andy. Il am standing upon nv
legal rights in this matter. It is the de.
PENDANTS who are compelling me to adopt
TINS tedious process OF examining the re-
ceipts. If they really want to expedite
matters let them assist me to get the book
which will probably have all the necessary
information, and which they professed
themselves so ready to assist in procuring" >"
Then Mr.. Freidenrich heaYed a sigh.
dropped his eyelids and sank back into his
chair
When the examination of Witness Briggs
was resumed he said that the assessment
of the Metropolitan Company's property
Ind been already made when he was sent
by Mr.. Siebe to examine the property.
4et the conferences Mr.. Briggs had held
with the numerous men, since dead, in re-
gard to electric machinery and wire, had
been held subsequently.
Fillmore-street real-estate values occu-
pied the attention of the court for the rest
OF the morning session. Discussion on
this locally lyinteresting subject was brought
about in connection with the witness
assessment of the carhouses at Turk and
Fillmore streets. The land, which occu-
pied half Western Addition block, was
| assessed at $32, 780.
In detcrming the value of the improve
ments, which he had assessed at $150 000
witness considered the number of bricks
In the building and other items. He was
also guided by the contract prices of build
lngs, which he received indirectly f1om
the Recorders office. He was not always
guided by this record, however. Besides,
he did not know that there was any con-
tract Tor this property. He assessed prop
erty at what he believed it to be worth,
not what it cost.
Deputy Briggs took his accustomed seat
on the witness-stand at the opening of the
afternoon session. Mr.. Clunie read the
assessed values OF various pieces of prop
erty belonging to the company, and the
witness in each case thought the property
had been assessed at its cash value.
Among these pieces were the old Mission
street stables at Fourteenth and Mission
streets, 240x186 feet, assessed at $29, 600;
the old Fourth-street car stables, on
Fourth and Perry streets. 50x80 feet,
$1,000. g. lot on Shipley and Fourth streets,
75x275 feet, had been set down at $1,000.
The 50-vara lot on which the Haight-
street carhouse stands had been assessed
at $4,000; the land on which the Hayes
street power house stands witness believed
IN, ho ~ oh ov,d ha
ments $4,000; the lot on which the Cas-
tro-street carhouse stands, 185 by la feet,
$4250; the power-house at Tenth and
Howard streets, Improvements as we'll as
land, $4,000.
Mr.. Briggs is an expert on machinery.
In assessing the machinery of the railway
company ne merely walked into the build
ing and looked around. He could tell at a
glance very nearly what the building was
worth. This degree of proficiency in siz-
ing up machinery, witness explain ed in
reply to Mr.. Clunie, had been acquired
through his former knowledge OF ma
chinery at the mines and his study of the
subject of mechanics. Besides, he had a
brother-in-law who was one of the finest
machinists in the United States and he
had learned much from him.
incidentally the Affiliated Colleges site,
south of the park, was discussed. Prop
erty in the neighborhood which witness
had recently appraised at $4,000 was as
sessed last year at $1,000 an acre. This,
however, was because the prospect of hav-
ing the colleges in the vicinity caused a
considerable rise in values.
"Then," said Mr.. Clunie, "the prospects
caused a rise of 300 per cent III real estate
values?"
We'll" answered Mr.. Briggs, "there
are great many things to consider"
About twenty minutes before court ad-
iourned Mr.. Clunie told the witness he
thought that was all. Mr.. Briggs heaved
several deep sighs, picked UP his shiny
tile stepped down from the stand and
soon disappeared.
Taen Mr.. Clunie announced that mas
much as Mr. Fredenrich insisted upon it
at former session of the court he was
ready to proceed to read the inventories
and other documentary evidence in the
case. 1t would also, he thought, be neces
sary to read the entire assessment roll, as
he deemed such evidence as essential to
his case. Mr.. Freidenrich said the de-
fendant would waive the reading Of such
evidence, but Mr.. Clunie replied that he
feared there was some technicality hidden
behind this waiver.
1.-THE other day, your Honor will remem-
ber," said Clunie, defendants attorney
strenuously insisted on the reading of the
documents, and l want to do everything
possible to strengthen my case.
Besides, the code provides that in pre-
liminary examinations all evidence must
be taken down by the shorthand reporter,
so it would seem necessary that all evil
dence should be submitted orally"
The court and attorneys, however, were
not quite ready to hear the assessment
roll read, so an adjournment was taken
until Monday at 10 o'clock.