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NEW MEXICO v. TEXAS

No. 2, Original.

275 U.S. 279 (1927)

NEW MEXICO v. TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 5, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frank W. Clancy, with whom Mr. Jay Turley was on the briefs, for complainant.

Mr. W.A. Keeling, Attorney General of Texas, with whom Messrs. John C. Wall, Wallace Hawkins, Assistant Attorneys General, and W.W. Turney were on the briefs, for defendant.

Mr. Thornton Hardie as amicus curiae, on behalf of L.M. Crawford, by special leave of Court.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought by the State of New Mexico against the State of Texas in 1913 to settle a controversy concerning the location of the part of their common boundary extending southwardly in the valley of the Rio Grande River an air-line distance of about fifteen miles from the parallel of 32 degrees north latitude to the parallel of 31 degrees 47 minutes on the international...

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