MISSOURI v. KANSAS

No. 6, Original.

213 U.S. 78 (1909)

STATE OF MISSOURI v. STATE OF KANSAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 22, 1909.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Elliott W. Major, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, and Mr. Hunter M. Meriwether, with whom Mr. Henry M. Beardsley was on the brief, for complainant.

Mr. F.S. Jackson, Attorney General of the State of Kansas, Mr. John S. Dawson and Mr. C.C. Coleman, for defendant, submitted.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill to establish the western boundary of the State of Missouri for a short distance above Kansas City in that State. The object of Missouri is to maintain title to an island of about four hundred acres in the Missouri River, now lying close to Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. The State of Kansas claims the same island by answer and what it terms...

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