OKLAHOMA v. TEXAS

No. 23, Original.

256 U.S. 70 (1921)

STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. STATE OF TEXAS, UNITED STATES, INTERVENER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1921.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Garnett, with whom Mr. W.W. Dyar and Mr. John A. Fain, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States, intervener.

Mr. C.M. Cureton, Attorney General of the State of Texas, and Mr. Thomas W. Gregory, with whom Mr. W.A. Keeling, Mr. E.F. Smith, Mr. C.W. Taylor, Mr. G. Carroll Todd and Mr. R.H. Ward were on the brief, for defendant:

Mr. Joseph W. Bailey and Mr. A.H. Carrigan, for the landowners, by special leave of court.

Mr. S.P. Freeling, Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma, for complainant.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit in equity in our original jurisdiction, brought by the State of Oklahoma against the State of Texas, to establish the true boundary line between those States where it follows the course of the Red River from the 100th degree of west longitude to the easterly boundary of Oklahoma. The bill avers that by the third article of a treaty concluded February 22...

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