Consolidated Coppermines Corp. v. Nevada Consolidated Copper Co.

Both plaintiff and defendant are foreign corporations. The allegation of the complaint is that the plaintiff owns a mine in Nevada; that the defendant in bad faith willfully, wrongfully and illegally trespassed upon the mine and took out ore of the value of $87,000; that under the statutes of Nevada set forth in part in the complaint any person in plaintiff’s position may maintain an action for the recovery of such damages or for an injunction and recover twice the value of the mineral so removed, or if the trespass Was in bad faith, three times the value of the ore so removed. The prayer for…