"That said defendant has not paid the said salary or any part thereof, and no part of the same has been paid, and plaintiff has often demanded payment thereof.
"Wherefore plaintiff demands judgment against the defendant for the sum of forty-eight hundred dollars and costs of suit and interest.
"FRANK & EISNER & REGENSBURGER,
"Attorneys for Plaintiff."
"State of California, City and County of San Francisco.
"LUIGI RAVELLI being duly sworn says that he is the Plaintiff in the above entitled action. That he has heard read the foregoing complaint and knows the contents thereof. That the same is true of his own knowledge except as to the matters therein stated on his information and belief and as to those matters he believes the same to be true.
"LUIGI RAVELLI
"Sworn to before me this 10th day of April 1886.
"SAMUEL HERINGHIE,
"Dep. Co. Clerk."
In reply to the above my attorney and friend, the invincible General W. H. L. Barnes, put in the following "answer and cross complaint":—
"In the Superior Court of the State of California in
and for the City and County of San Francisco.
"LUIGI RAVELLI, Plaintiff, v. J. H. MAPLESON,
Defendant.