Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-10
THE BULLION. BECK BOND.
An Undertaking for One Hundred
and Fifty Thousand DOllars-The
Disputed Ground TO Remain
Untouched During the
Litigation.

At the time of the rendering OF an
opinion by the Supreme Court of the Ter
ritory in the celebrated mining suit OF the
Bullion-Beck & Champion Company vs.
the Eureka Hill Company, it will be re-
membered that the former company
asked for an order for an injunction re-
straining the Eureka Hill people from
working on certain disputed ground pend.
ing the appeal of the case to the Supreme
| Court of the United States. The Court
ruled that the order should be allowed
upon the filing of supersedeas bond Of
$3.50, 900 by the Bullion-Beck Company,
and that in the meantime the other com
pany should have the use of the ground
according TO the opinion of the Court.
Since that time Mr.. Beck has been
working diligently to complete the list OF
sureties, and this being done, he yester-
dav presented to the Court the following
| bond:
Know all men by these presents, that
we, the Bullion, Beck & Champion Min
ing Company, a corporation organized
under the laws of Utah Territory, de-
fendant on the cross-complaint, Nicholas
II. Groesbeck, David A. Hilton, Fred
erick A. Mitchell, George Beck, William
Turner, Sen, John Beck, Rodney ID.
Swasey, John A. Groesbeck, William
Groesbeck, Hyrum Groesbeck, Horace 5.
Eldredge. James Jack, George IL. Tay-
lor and Henry Dinwoodey, are held and
firmly bound unto the Eureka Hill Min
ing Company, plaintiff in the cross-com-
plant, in the sum of one hundred and
fifty thousand (l50,000) dollars, to be
paid to the Eureka Hill Mining Company,
or its successors, to which payment, we'll
and truly to be made, we bind ourselves
and each Of us jointly and severally, and
our, and each of our heirs, executors
and administrators firmly by these pres
ents. Sealed with our seals and dated
this 9th day OF July, A. ID. 1886.
Whereas, the Bullion, Beck and Cham
pion Mining Company, defendant in said
cross-complaint, has prosecuted and APP
pealed to the Supreme Court OF the
favor of said Eureka Hill Mining Com
pany, plaintiff in said cross-complaint,
and against said Bullion, Beck and
Champion Mining Company, rendered on
the cross-complaint by the Supreme
Court of the Territory of Utah;
And, whereas, the said Supreme Court
OF said Territory, by its order made in
said action on the Sth day of July. 1886,
that pending said appeal the respondent
he and continue restrained and enjoined
from working in or removing ore from
the premises in controversy, specified in
said order;
Now, therefore, the condition of this
obligation is such, that if the above
bounden Bullion, Beck & Champion
Mining Company, shall well and truly
pay, or cause to be paid to said Eureka
Hill Mining Company all damages which
it shall suffer by reason OF said injunc-
ton in case the judgment appealed from
shall be affirmed by the Supreme Court
of the United States, or said injunction
be dissolved pending the appeal, or said
appeal be dismissed, and if said appeal
shall be prosecuted, with due diligence,
then this Obligation shall be void, other
wise to be and remain in full force and
virtue.
BULLION, BECK & CHAMPION MINING Co.,
Per GEO. REYNOLDS, Secretary.
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence
of j. q. Sutherland, as to signature of
Rodney D. Swasey.
NICHOLAS II. GRoEsBECK,
DAVID Hutton,
f. A. MITCHELL,
GEORGE BECK,
WILLIAM TURNER, SEN,
JOHN BECK,
RODNEY ID. SwAsEY,
JOHN A. GRoEsBECK,
WILLIAM GRoEsBEcK,
HYRUM GRoEsBECK,
II. S. ELDREDGE,
JAMES JACK,
GEORGE FL. TAYLOR,
II. DINwooDEY.
The sureties justify as follows: