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Show REOPENING MINERAL SEPARATION CASE . IS ORDERED U. S. Supreme Court to Re view Contest Involving Millions of Dollars. The l.'niled Kta""a slipren e curt haa j det-ide) to reopen the oase nf the Miner- als H'iMiruiKtn company srmst the Hutte hikI Kiiftertur Miring cotuaii. Involving j millions nf dollar The circuit rourt of appeslw at Hun Knuw-iei'o last March inverse! the decision de-cision of the lor court In fnvor "f the Minerals He par: Hon -ofTiinny and the j esse was rem-iiileI l;i. k to the Montana I court with instruction to di'tnis the I tn II- ' IJ4ter tlie null -ot(rt ntmlified ilsj order and ilvreo nn to grant the 1 Ml tiers in Sep;ir:t turn i oiv.pativ en Injunc- tlon anrl Mri-Otinttng la.ttnut Hutle and I Hinjterior on till oper.H ions of tne latter uiniiv . uf..rik- ii.-.: of ciifc.hlf ofj 1 pr cent, or I or i. Tup U ami In- ' cliitling Jiinuary 7. 117 Minerals Sep-' ratiofi then look th ce lo the I'nited ! etttew swiprerre court. ahtnr for a writ ! of crt)ontrt, or a r i w of the while I proif rlih. I Hut te a tut S'iteruir h.iit maintained ' that if (he wnt is i-ued it will bring 1 up only a siTiRle question. to-it. the' question whether the pntent in suit cov-i era the i-e t,f rul ifi mi.intlCrw l.efw.en. one-fuiii or 1 pT ul aid 1 p r cen on! the ore. It alfo ni;itnijiina that the patent pat-ent in suit los not cover the uae or oil in quantities above 1 per cent as square- I ly derided atrendy by the snipreme court, t ruruirimwr, inai me .inin oircuu court of appeaH haa enjoined against the Uae of one-half of 1 pr cent of oil and ordered or-dered an accounting for such tune aa Rutte and Hupennr used less tliHn this quantity It ont nds th;it tne only territory ter-ritory regarding which there can. le any oesible dispute lies between one-half of 1 per cent of oil as the lower limit and 1 per rent a the upper limit, basing this contention on the supreme court devitton ; that the patent miit b- confined to the! use of oil withfn th-r "critical" proportions propor-tions The outcome of this litistarlon in eagerly eager-ly awaited hv the mining industry. If it results In the I'niled H talcs supreme court upholding the .Minerals Hepivration contention that anything up to 1 per cent of oil, or twenty pound per ton, uaed In flotation. constitutes Infringement, It will have valid claims for aettlement with Mutt and Huierior, Miami Copper and th Jackllng porphyries, I'tah, Chlm Ray aind Nevada Consolidated, for all of I these are now using an amount of oil In their flotation processes that falla within the eiie of the contention of thw Miner- I s4s enpeal Ism eemiiany. ' ' 4 |
