Cole Silver Min. Co. v. Virginia & Gold Hill Water Co.

In equity. Application for preliminary injunction heard on bill and affidavits. Complainant is a corporation, organized for the purpose of mining for silver. Its grantors took up a ledge supposed to contain silver ores, situate on the side of the mountain, above Virginia City. Complainant excavated a tunnel, commencing in a ravine some distance below the croppings of its ledge, On the surface of the mountain, and extended it into the mountain to and through its ledge at a considerable depth below the surface. In excavating the tunnel, complainant struck a seam in the rock, from which flowed a…