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Show SOME PARK MIXING LITIGATION. Contestants Over the Morgan Group of mines Begin the Ball in the District Court. The suit brought in the Third District Court yesterday by Sheriff John A. Groes-beck Groes-beck in behalf of the Morgan Mining Co. against George A. Meears, representing represent-ing several local capitalists, has assumed a stubborn triangular shape by both par- j I ties filing adverse claims against J. J. j Daley, who is said to be surveying claims ! for patents on the property in dispute. The present trouble over the Morgan group of mines was brought about as follows: fol-lows: On May 24, 1884, Philip Morgan, Gottlieb Schad, J. B. Parry and Henry Hirschman, the owners of the Grizzly, Lizarena, Marietta, Benton, Lady Morgan, Mor-gan, Danville, St. Louis, and several hundred hun-dred feet of the Abbey mining claims, formed a corporation whereby it was agreed that Mr. George A. Meears, for a consideration of $500 and one-fourth of the stock, should receive control of the property for one year after the corporation was formed, at the expiration of which time he was to turn the property over to the company. Meears was given $1,000 and a deed of trust to enable him to carry out the provisions of the contract. Mr. Hirschman denies signing the above contract, con-tract, or having authorized Philip Morgan Mor-gan to attach his signature for him, and claims that Mr. Meears never fulfilled his agreement as trustee : that the contract was abandoned before Mav 2lfh 1885, and it was considered void. On the 2d of June, 1835, the original and present owners of the Morgan group of mines, considering that, the Meears' agreement had been broken, and no work done on the property, formed a new in- j corporation, with Simon Bamberger, John A Groesbeck, E. M. Bynon, Jos Barnett. F. K. Morris, and several Eastern capitalists capi-talists as stockholders, and gave a deed of everything to the new company. Work on the property was at once begun under the management of Mr. Bynon and others of the company, which has amounted in expenditures of over $8,000, and resulted in considerable development and improvements under the labor of a large force of men. During the new company's control of the claims one of the incorporators, who belonged to the Meears contract, is said to have changed his base and begun a series of hostilities, resulting in stona i being taken to set aside certain important claims. A case followed on several charges, and instead of it being tried in Park City, all parties weretaken to Sny-deryille, Sny-deryille, where it is alleged" that the Sheriff and Prosecuting Attorney of Summit Sum-mit county did some special favors to one side of the warring claimants, which re sulted in alternate defeat and victory for the Morgan Company. The complaint filed in the Third District Dis-trict Court yesterday by Mr. Groesbeck mentions the contracts between the Morgan Mor-gan Company and Mr. Meears, which are asked to be declared void on account of defendant's non-compliance, with the original contract. The plaintiff also asks that the defendant be required to convey to the plaintiff a full deed to all this property, and that henceforth the defendants defend-ants be restrained, from interfering with the Morgan Company's prosecuting assessment and developing the above group of claims. The property under litigation is valued at $150,000, and the title will be vigorously vigor-ously contended for by both sides.. Last ! evening Judge Zane granted the restraining restrain-ing order asked for bv Mr. Groesbeck for the remainder of this year. Mr. Meears was given ten days' lime to file an answer, on which the fight will be based. |