Kinney

The purpose of this action, as stated by plaintiff in the opening paragraph of his complaint, was to recover “damages, actual and punitive, suffered by him at the hands jointly of defendants herein, to-wit: the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000), for a joint, unlawful, criminal, wilful, oppressive and fraudulent confederation together and conspiracy on the part of all and each of the defendants herein directed against complainant and aimed, designed and intended to harass and oppress him and to do him intentional wrong and destroy and injure and dissipate his property and to deprive him of credit and the means of obtaining a livelihood, and to acquire his property without consideration or return, by said means.” Three of the ten defendants sued, namely, Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, a corporation, its Los Angeles superintendent and manager, W. W. Morrison and C. A. Holzer, interposed a general demurrer to the complaint, and it was sustained without leave to amend. Pursuant to the order so made judgment of dismissal was entered, from which plaintiff has appealed. The remaining seven defendants are residents either of New York or Canada, and so far as the record…