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Title: September 27, 1972 Collection Type: Newspapers Collection Name: Nevada County Nugget Published: September 27, 1972 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Physical Format: Newspaper # of Pages: 12 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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evelyn see e. sit! ae “State of California, County of Nevada: "Hh, A, Lones, Plaintiff, "vs, "Rufus Shoemaker, et al., Defendants. "Now comes Henry Knerr, especially retained for this cause, and answering personally and severally for each of the defendants therein sued, showes to this Court that the judicial iniquity of this attempt of plaintiff is unparalleled and his impudence unprecedented in the history of men. Defendants further show, through the said Knerr, their learned counsel, that language and the forms of speech are unable to convey their true feelings and the wrongs they have suffered at the hands of this plaintiff; wherefore, the defendants refer this Court to the several exhibits appended to and accompanying this answer, and made part there. They deny, first, each and every material allegation of plaintiff's complaint; and they also take this opportunity of expressing their astonishment at the moral obliquity of plaintiff, which induces him to make such statements. They refer him to the case of Ananias and Sapphira, his wife, + + . aS a precedent in point, and a wholesome warning to this plaintiff. Having thus generally answered, defendants, by their said counsel, Knerr, proceed to particularize; and they deny that said plaintiff now is or ever was, the owner of the certain house upon Main Street; but defendants say that said plaintiff's possession of said premises was most violent and summary, as will more fully appear by reference to Exhibit A, hereby referred to and made part of this answer, Wherefore these defendants say that one Mr. Flurshutz, a gentleman of Teutonic traction, is the owner of said premises, and that he doth likewise compound a very refreshing beverage called lager beer. And these defendants say that they have, for a long time, to wit, for the period of three years, paid their rent to the said Flurshutz in small sums, to wit, in sums amounting to one and two bits. "And defendants, further answering, say that they have not leased said premises of the plaintiff, nor do they hoi. the same, nor have they held the same under him, nor have they in any way attorned to him for the use of the same. But defendants show that said plaintiff has often attempted to lease said premises to these defendants, and to induce said defendants to attorn to him, the said plaintiff, as landlord, as will more clearly appear by reference to Exhibit B, made part of this answer. But defendants say that, firm in their integrity of purpose, unseduced by flattery, as undismayed by disaster, they have ever resisted his importunities; that they have never recognized him as their landlord, and that, completely disgusted with his present course, it is their settled intention to never recognize him in any capacity whatever, And the defendants further show that during the term and time in which said plaintiff charges these defendants with the occupation of said premises, the same were held and occupied under a lease from said plaintiff by one Madame Clark as a dancing school, and that these defendants were evicted and ejected by said Madame History of Nev Published ir W.B. Lardner Clark, the lessee of said plaintiff. These defendants, proceeding to narrate the facts connected therewith, show that, being naturally men of sanguinary propensities, they did march, arrayed in gorgeous apparel, very wonderful to behold, and with divers fearful weapons, to the said hall, to the end that a certain doughty wssvloe one King of Pungo, should instruct them in the slaughter of men, And defendants show that, as they drew near to said hall, they heard music and the sounds of revelry; Whereupon, v'ch the speed of an antelope, or of divers antelopes, said defendants did incontinently rush toward said hall. And defendants show that, as they entered said hall, ther: oin a * uri ist them divers women, as more fully appears by Exhibit C No, 1, hereby referred to as part of this answer. And the defendants show that before they could get up to the: n wi oy they were dispossessed, evicted and ejected from said premises, as most especially appears from said Exhibit C No, 2, whereby defendants say they suf*sc-2d at loss in uniform, munitions of war, wind and tuition in the art of strategic warfare, to have been given by the aforesaid King. "And defendants further aisweiiy, show that during the term of occupation as sued upon by said plaintiff, said premises and building were out of repair and inaccessible, on account of the ruinous 2 sadi-ion, and that the said plaintiff did suffer and permit said premises to thus become untenantable, well knowing the condition thereof, and that said defendants aver thai although as brave as lions, they are as wise as serpents, and well knowing the premises, and that if the premisas f2!! ipon said defendants, there would not be a grease spot left of any one, save and except their captain, said defendants did with great