OKLAHOMA v. TEXAS

No. 18, Original.

260 U.S. 606 (1923)

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

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 15, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W.W. Dyar, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mr. Assistant Attorney General Riter, and Mr. John A. Fain, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Thomas W. Gregory and Mr. W.A. Keeling, Attorney General of the State of Texas, with whom Mr. Walace Hawkins, Mr. Bruce W. Bryant, Mr. G. Carroll Todd, Mr. R.H. Ward and Mr. C.M. Cureton were on the brief, for defendant.

Mr. Joseph W. Bailey, with whom Mr. Orville Bullington, Mr. C.B. Felder, Mr. Leslie Humphrey and Mr. A.H. Carrigan were on the brief, for Mrs. Lillis Morgan et al., Texas patented land owners, interveners.

Mr. S.P. Freeling for complainant.

Mr. C.L. Bass filed a brief on behalf of the Bass Petroleum Company, intervener.

Mr. K.C. Barkley filed a brief on behalf of the General Oil Company and the National Oil & Refining Company, interveners.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

A principal object of this suit, originally brought in this Court, is to settle a controversy over that part of the boundary between the States of Texas and Oklahoma which follows the course of the Red River from the 100th degree of west longitude to the easterly limit of Oklahoma. This boundary is part of an old one between the territory of the United States and...

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