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MISSOURI v. ILLINOIS

No. 4, Original.

200 U.S. 496 (1906)

MISSOURI v. ILLINOIS AND THE SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 19, 1906.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Herbert S. Hadley, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, Mr. Sam B. Jeffries and Mr. Charles W. Bates, with whom Mr. W.F. Woerner was on the brief, for the complainant.

Mr. James Todd for the Sanitary District of Chicago. Mr. Howland J. Hamlin, with whom Mr. John G. Drennan and Mr. W.H. Stead were on the brief, for the State of Illinois.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit brought by the State of Missouri to restrain the discharge of the sewage of Chicago through an artificial channel into the Desplaines River, in the State of Illinois. That river empties into the Illinois River, and the latter empties into the Mississippi at a point about forty-three miles above the city of St. Louis. It was alleged in the bill that the...

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