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The Bemidji (MN) Daily Pioneer
November 25, 1904


                            TITLE TO PROPERTY CLEARED
                            
                 Iron Company Gets Land Worth Millions of Dollars.
                 
              Marquette, Mich., Nov. 25. - Clearing title to the Maas
            mine property at Negaunee, valued at several million dol-
            lars, Circuit Judge Stone has filed a decision in favor of
            the Cleveland Cliffs Iron company in the case against LEWIS
            CORBIT and others. The litigation, which came to trial last
            September, involved the ownership of a wedge-shaped strip
            of land on which the Cleveland Cliffs company had sunk a
            shaft and made other costly improvements.
              There were two sets of defendants in the case, one con-
            sisting of LEWIS CORBIT and the heirs of STEPHEN GAUTHIER,
            and the other the heirs of ANTOINE BARABE.
              The GAUTHIER and BARABE farms were sold to the Cleveland
            Cliffs Iron company as a solid body of land, but the
            GAUTHIER heirs had a resurvey and claimed a strip of land
            on the old BARABE farm.
              The trial of the case, which was one of the most important
            ever brought in Northern Michigan, lasted for several days,
            during which many old residents of Negaunee were called as
            witnesses.
            
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