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SANITARY DISTRICT v. UNITED STATES

No. 161.

266 U.S. 405 (1925)

SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 5, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edmund D. Adcock, with whom Mr. Clyde L. Day, Mr. George F. Barrett and Mr. Louis J. Behan were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. Joseph B. Fleming, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Attorney General Stone and Mr. Louis B. Caldwell, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Harvey D. Goulder for the Lake Carriers' Association as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.

Mr. Francis X. Busch and Mr. Leon Hornstein, by leave of Court, filed a brief on behalf of the City of Chicago, as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a bill in equity brought by the United States to enjoin the Sanitary District of Chicago, a corporation of Illinois, from diverting water from Lake Michigan in excess of 250,000 cubic feet per minute; the withdrawal of that amount having been authorized by the Secretary of War. It is alleged that the withdrawal of more, viz., from 400,000 to 600,000 cubic feet...

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