Arizona republican., 1903-05-23
THE COBRE GRANDE
The HaIlenbOrg Suit in Su-
 preme Court Today
Story of This Latest Feature of the Mining Litigation Covering Q
 Per4od of Almost Four Years.

There will be a session of the terri
 torial supreme court today. Associate
 Justices Davis and Doan arrived in tie city yesterday morning and Associate
 Justice Sloan will come this morning.
 The principal matter at this session sill be the ease of Axel w. Halter
 borg Of New York against the Cobre
 Grande Copper company, the Cananea
 Consolidated Copper company, the
 Greene Consolidated Copper company,
 ". C. Greene. George Mitchell and
 various officers and directors of the
 Cobre Grande company.
 Beside this case several motions for
 rehecring will be passed upon, and it
 is possible that decisions will be hand
 ed down in three or four cases which
 were passed at thc last session.
 ltr. II. C. Atwater of New York, of
 the firm Of Atwater 6, Cruikshauk. ar
 rived in the city yesterday, represent
 ing HallenbCrg. The local attorneys
 for the plaintiff are Judge J. J. Flaw Iins and Colonel J. r. Wilson of Pres cott The other side is represented by most O. the rest Of the leading attor- neys in the territory.
 This case presents the latest phase of the Cobre Gr1nde litigation which was begun nearly four years ago and which has extended through the courts Of this territory, Mexico Texas and New York. This suit was flied in Prescott in 1901. but before iJ came 10 trial. J. Edward AdGicks. who claimed to occu- ! ny the same position in ;he coatrover- sy as the plaintin, was allowed Co in teIplead.
 The complaint TcCited tho whole story Of the C1brc Graude litigation, which 1 is now an cid story. up Jo that time. t described the formation of the Can aneG Consolidated under the laws Of Mexico and the formation or the Green Consolidated under the laws cf ! west Virginia for the purpose which was at last fulfilled of taking in the | CoAre GranGe.
 1 The agreement between the Greene ! interests and the directors O; the Cobrc | G-euGe for the disccnunuance Of the suits which had been instituted iE this county and elsewhere was alleged c. l be a fraudulent coiUsiou calculated to iniuro the plaintid and all those siIui- larly situated.
 Tn the prayer it was asked that the | Co5-e Grandc and it's agents. officers. ] directors and attorneys be restrained ! from discontinuins the matte suits" which had been begun in TeXas and ! New York for the recovery of the { matte which he'd been shipped after 1 the Greene people had obtained posses { ~ion of the property CT for the estab fishing Of a lien vpoI it. 1t was also asked that the diScoutinuarcc of the ! litiEat lion in this county be enjoined and that a mandatory injunction issue requiring the officers and directors ot 1 the Cobre Grande tn prosecute all these suits with vigor. The piai1iG also de sired permission to intervene.
 The court was also asked to rCrove | the officers and directors of the Cobre ! GrarGe who had been active in the set ] tlCwcat with Greene people and e ap- point receiver t5 take possession of the ! property and assets of the CoEre Granda and to prosecute the litigation It was l further prayed that Greene and Mitch
 ell be restrained fr;m asking or OF re- ! ce.vjug from the Phoenix National bank certain papers and documents which had been described in the com , plai1t; that an extension Of time b. ! granted for tEe payment Of ,000 un- cdr contract between Greene and ] allICleI NAiCn naC D-tl aSSulil't DA the company from Mitchell and the | nayme-t of which it was alleged had been prevented at the time agreed upon by the acts of Greene. It was lastly ! ae ked that the C1naro1 Consolidated and the Green C3n~1uiated be required ! 10 make an accounting to the Cobre Grande of the products of the property.
 The complaint was based upon the allegation that the plaintiff was a ! stcckholder of the Cobre Grande and that he was also 9 creditor of the com Dany.
 Separate answers were filed by the defendants. and they were altogether, IS voiumiTous as the complaint had been. The Cananea Consolidated de-
 nie1 the jurisdiction Of the court. II was Mexican corporation. had no ' business in this country and main