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Show Another One on the Emma Hill Consolidated. Complaint was filed in the Clerk's oificc of the Third District Court, yesterday, yes-terday, by Colonel E. A. Wall et ul. against the Emma Hill Consolidated Mining Company of California, for tho recovery of possession of a portion of the South Star lode, Little Cottonwood, Cotton-wood, and for damages. The complaint com-plaint alleges that on the 1st of September, Sep-tember, 1S7-1, the plaintifts, being the owners and in peaceable possession ol the ground in dispute, describing it, the defendants wrongfully entered and took possession of four hundred feet of the ledge running south-easterly irom the South Star shaft; and that the defendants ousted and ejected the plain tills from said portion of tho premises pre-mises and still hold it. The complaint also alleges that the rents and profits which defendant have received from the mine amount to $70,000, for which amount and to recover possession posses-sion of the ledge the plaintiils pray for jugdmcnt, together with costs of su i t . The property in dispute is some of the most valuable in the district, and the trial of the ease promises to be one of unusual interest, not only from the fact of the amount sued for being large, but that it strikes deep at the root of the substantial existence of the defendant, it being one of the principal princi-pal mines now worked by that corn-puny. |