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Show 13 SUIT INVOLVES LAND ; VALUED AT $50,000,000 By International News Service. LOS A.TCGELES, Sept. 17 Lands worth 5R0.000.000 and approximating 48,000 acres are involved In a suit riled today In tho I TTnltcd States district court by Attorney T. S. Minot of San Francisco ngainst the i Southern Pacific Railroad company aAd nlUcd corporations. The vast acreage 1 was withdrawn from entry by Secretary of the Interior Ballinger and ratified by President Taft on July 2, 1910. Tho acrcase was granted the Southern , Pacific by congress July 27, 1866, and un-, un-, der the joint resolution of June 28. 1870, With Attorney Minot are thirty-two other plalntlffH who claim tho land, which Is ; ntuatcd In Fresno and Kern counties, f California, by the right of placer mining J locations and by right of discovery of olL The complainants are business men and jt bankers of San Francisco. Fresno, Bakers-field, Bakers-field, San Joso and Ilanford. Tho action Is directed against tho Southern Pnclflc company, Kern Trading & OH company, Jamo3 K. Wilson an trustee; Homer S. King, trustoe; Central Trust company of New York, Equitable I Trust company of New York, trustee, and the Southern Pacific Land company. The ( complaint recites that the land was e-curcd e-curcd through fraud and a permanent injunction in-junction Is prayed for. |