Calkins

In 1911 the appellant and the defendant M. F. Calkins were husband and wife and were living in the city of Salinas, Monterey County. At that time he and one Homer W. Wood were the principal owners of a newspaper known as the “Salinas Democrat,” which was conducted by the Democrat Publishing Company, a corporation. In the year 1912 plaintiff, who is the father of said M. F. Calkins, came to Salinas from Hayward and they purchased the interest of said Wood in the paper. The corporation continued its publication as before.

In the fall of 1914 M. F. Calkins took an assignment from one Megladdery of a lease of the “Monterey Cypress,” a newspaper published in the city of Monterey, paying therefor the sum of $150. There was a lack of equipment in said newspaper and M. F. Calkins went to Oakland and borrowed from his father-in-law, a Mr. Hatfield, the sum of $1,000, for which a note was given signed by said Calkins and by appellant. About $250 of this money was used in paying bills and the balance of $750 went into said additional equipment. A little later plaintiff came from Salinas to Monterey and he put into the said “Monterey Cypress” quite a sum of money, admitted by appellant to be…