Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-03
ALBION VS.. RICHMOND.
THE FAMOUS LITIGATION PRAC.
TITKEEY IN rT+D.
Albion Ahead ON Every POint-The
"Beggar Your Neighbour Policy
DeservedIy a Failure.

AHDAOs IA HINcEy GhC
"Beggar You Neighbour Policy
DeseryedIy a Failure.
s. F. Stock Exchange.
The ruling of Chief Justice Leonard on
Tuesday, coupled with the entry on the same
day with Judge Rives of Eureka in the
District Court, Of the Judgment of the Su-
preme Court in this case, is q pretty effect
ual finale to the persistent litigation which
the Richmond Company has forced upon
the Albion. For nearly three years now
the latter company has been engaged in
this expensive litigation. The end, so far
as the State courts are concerned, is nearly
reached. The entry of the judgment in
the District Court in Eureka on Tuesday,
in conformity with the opinion and order
of the Supreme Court, perpetually ~enjoins
the Richmond from crossing the north
west line of the Tip Top, and gives to the
Albion all that they have ever claimed.
The Richmond Company will, without
doubt, take a writ Of error to the Supreme
Court Of the United States at Washington,
under the vain hope that it may reverse
the recent decision of the Supreme Court
of Nevada, but the chances Of such q re-
versal are so slim that it will not trouble
the Albion Company any further than to
have their counsel in Washington attend
to it, some three or our years hence, when
it is reached in that Court. SO far, in this
litigation, the Albion Company has gained
every point it has claimed. When it dis
covered its first ore body the Richmond
enjoined it, and replevied the ore which the
Albion had extracted. The same course
was followed when it again encountered a
second ore body, and also when it discov-
cred its third ore body. The policy Of the
Richmond Company has been one to en-
barrass and crush the Albion Company by
harassing and persistent litigation. The
end is nearly reached and the day of set
Element is at hand. The Albion Company
is to-day declared the legal owner of all it
claimed. The puerile threats and bonn
bastic talk of the counsel of the Richmond
! Company in this city, as well as the loud
and threatening language OF the senior
counsel in Eureka, are rebuked in as plain
a way as is possible, by the opinion of the
Supreme Court of Nevada, by the ruling
of its Chief Justice, and by the entry
of a final judgment in the District Court
at Eureka. The writ of error is Of little
moment. The supersedeas, which was,
according to one statement of the Rich
mond counsel here, to. keep the Albion tied
up for a term of years, cannot in any way
whatever now interfere with the working
of the mine, as the Albion is in complete
Inc entire possession, and the Richmond
perpetually enjoined from working in their
ground.
The two or three remaining cases in the
District Court cut but a small figure in
the affair, as the titles under which the
Richmond have in these suits shut up their
claims are long subsequent to the Uncle
Sam, recently confirmed by the Nevada
Supreme Court. The end Of this struggle
is, that the great Richmond Company,
which was such a power in Eureka, is
confined to l 100 feet of worked-out ground,
between the Eureka and Albion, and it
can never enlarge its boundaries in either
direction. The stupidity Of the managers
of the Richmond Company is incompre-
hensible. Rose, who owned the Uncle
Sam, swore on the trial that he offered it
to the Richmond Company for a few hun
dred dollars, but they would not buy it,
as they believed they could steal it by
crushing Rose, whom they did not like.
Even after the Albion Company, then in
its infancy, had become the owner Of the
Uncle Sam, the Richmond Company could
have acquired it at one-half the amount
which its litigation for it has cost. But it
believed in Its power to control Courts and
juries, and its manager and counsel al
lowed a personal pique to again influence
them. So they shut their eyes, plunged
their hands into the pockets of their Eng
fish shareholders, and lost all that they SO
pompously claimed, with heavy claims
against the company growing out Of the
litigation. 1t is q fit ending for a corpora.
ton which tried the crushing policy.
The ways OF our English cousins are
past finding out. In this instance the
~t'bulldozing'' policy has lamentably failed,
ana we suppose we shall next hear a la
mentable we'll from the Engliah sharehol.
ders, finding fault with our Conrta for be-
ing so unjust and corrupt as to give to
Rose the property he was entitled to. 1t
is a bad policy, as the manager of the COM
pany has now discovered, to try to wrest
from a man in this country his property,
because the company was rich and the man
poor. 1t ia now quite certain that this
once great company's term is limited. But
it is a Just result, from the INSCRIPTIONS
course pursued by its manager and agents
in this contest for the Uncle Sam ground,
which now belongs to the Albion Com
pany.