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UNITED STATES v. RIO GRANDE IRRIGATION CO.

No. 239.

184 U.S. 416 (1902)

UNITED STATES v. RIO GRANDE DAM AND IRRIGATION COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1902.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Marsden C. Burch for the United States, appellants.

Mr. J.H. McGowan for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit presents a contest between the United States and the appellee corporations as to the right asserted by the latter to construct over and near the Rio Grande a certain dam and reservoir for the purpose of appropriating the waters of that river in their private business.

By the seventh article of the treaty of February 2, 1848, between the United States...

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