LOUISIANA v. MISSISSIPPI

No. 11, Original.

202 U.S. 1 (1906)

LOUISIANA v. MISSISSIPPI.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 5, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Dymond, Jr., Mr. Francis C. Zacharie and Mr. Walter Guion, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, with whom Mr. Alexander Porter Morse and Mr. Albert Estopinal, Jr. were on the brief, for complainant.

Mr. Hannis Taylor, Mr. J.N. Flowers and Mr. Monroe McClurg, with whom Mr. William Williams, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, was on the brief, for defendant.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

The demurrer was overruled because the court was of opinion that the bill presented a prima facie case of justiciable controversy between the State of Louisiana and the State of Mississippi as to the boundary line between them, and we are clear that the proofs establish the existence of such a controversy as to fully...

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