Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-22
FIFTEEN QUESTIONS ARE
PRoPoUNDED TO CANDIDATE

Editor Herald: You are asking
questions of the candidates for the
state legislature. They are the fell
lows that make the laws and the laws
are the things that break the peo-
pie not interested in the lawyers or
! court fees. 1 desire to add few
questions to those propounded by
Judge Works that are of interest to
every man who does any business.
Fourteenth-Will you vote for law
simplifying the method of procedure
| in civil cases and ending the tedious
| and costly delays?
Fifteenth-Will you vote for a law
| allowing purely legal points to be de-
! cided upon motion without the neces-
sity of a full trial?
Sixteenth-Will you vote for a law
doing away with technical decisions
in suits of equity where a reason
able compliance has been made?
Seventeenth-Will you vote for a
law making arbitration compulsory
when an arbitration clause is inserted
in a contract and forcing a judge to
accept the amount awarded by arbi-
tration and the cost of suit against
the party refusing to arbitrate?
Eighteenth-Will you vote for law
! ueCldrlnB Dill totally NOlu IOT dl4
purposes of collection when 1t is shown
to the courts satisfaction that the bill
| is falsely enlarged and overcharged in
the complaint or bill of particulars?
Nineteenth-Will you vote for law
making it a perjury to pad a bill?
Twentieth-Will you vote for a law
allowing the defendant the right to
! file the last brief in civil suits?
| Twenty -f1rst-Will you vote for
| 10 hnnH in attach
ment of real property to be of same
value as market value of property
| Twenty-sec you vote for a
law allowing a defendant to deposit
| with court an amount 1t decides and
If plaintiff wins no more than that
amount in judgment assess him all
| costs including the reasonable attor-
ney's and witness fees of defendant?
Twenty -fourth-Will you vote for
law consolidating all claims of all
kinds arising from an original con-
tract and its subcontracts upon appli-
cation of the defendant whether such
claims are for lien, labor material, or
otherwise and in either justice or SUI
perior coart or not yet sued upon?
Twenty -ffth-Will you vote for a
law simplifying the lien law and MAX
ing it effective and inexpensive in its
operation?
Twenty-sixth-wil you vote for a
law compelling a plaintiff to be the
real owner of a claim If residing in
the county or If sold or assigned al
lowing assignee only judgment for
amount actually paid for claim?
Twenty ty-seventh-Will you vote for a
law allowing service of subpoenas in
civil suits to be made only during
business hours and an actual and
reasonable service fee only made for
witnesses used in trial?
Twenty -eighth-Will you vote for
law allowing a defendant temporarily
embarrassed to submit a statement
of debts to a court and allowing court
to give reasonable time to adjust
such debts under the courts advice
without further suits?
Twenty you vote for a
law compelling a lawyer to submit
to a client in writing a full state
| ment of what his charges will be for
a case before accepting same and re-
fusing him right to sue unless he has
done so and disbarring him for refus-
ing to finish a case begun or fully
defending his client unless by consent
of client he is excused or substituted?
These fifteen questions concern me
and the masses far more than the
thirteen asked by Judge Works. VIII
candidates answer them?
J. e. BREITW1SER.
Los Angeles, July 21.