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BEGINS COURT ACTIONTO OUST SAND BOOMERFROM BROWNTOWN HILL(Special to the JournabSlnndnrd)Monroe. Wis.. Feb. 23.—The battle of Browntown sand hill went into a new sector this afternoon.Complaint was filed with Justice M. E. Baltzer by M\ Josephine Emmenegger, Monroe, starting off on its legal course her effort to oust from her sand hill farm property just west * of Browntown one Robert Wehenn, Rockford, 111., who more than a year ago signed a lease with the late Fred Bmmenegger assigning mineral right to Wehenn on a royalty basis provided, Wclienn began removal of the sand within ono year, if he found it in commercially paying6 quantities in the 10-acre tract in which he was permitted to prospectWehenn claims there is glass sand in the hill in paying quantities and that within a year he had removed three tons as required by the lease. Mrs. Emmenegger holds that the removal of three tons for experimental purposes does not constitute “removal in the sense of the •contract and that besides glass sand ds not to be found in “paying quantities on the property.Justice Baltzer is scheduled to issue a summons for Wehenn, who claims to bo beginning operations at the sand hill, having petitioned I for a spur track and begun “strip-t ( ping operations, jMrs. Emmenegger has received1 j 15 cents in royalty since the sand 3 i property was leased, being 5 cents '* | a ton on the three tons removed.| Wehenn’s recent operations have been conducted imdm* the name of the White Rock Crystal Silica company,, unincorporated.Rate in January he was ordei'ed to vacate the property but 1 he did not comply with the request of the owner.neyf
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Freeport Journal Standard
Freeport, Illinois, US
Thu, Feb 23, 1928
Page 12
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