MISSOURI v. IOWA.


48 U.S. 660 (1849)

7 How. 660

THE STATE OF MISSOURI, COMPLAINANT, v. THE STATE OF IOWA, RESPONDENT. THE STATE OF IOWA, COMPLAINANT, v. THE STATE OF MISSOURI, RESPONDENT. — Cross-Bill.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Gamble and Mr. Green, for the State of Missouri, and Mr. Ewing and Mr. Mason, for the State of Iowa.


Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

On the 10th day of December, A.D. 1847, the State of Missouri filed her original bill in this court, according to the third article and second section of the constitution, against the State of Iowa, alleging that the northern part of said State of Missouri was obtruded on and claimed by the defendant, for a space of more than ten miles wide and about two hundred miles...

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