STATE OF WISCONSIN ET AL.
v.
STATE OF ILLINOIS AND SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO ET AL.
STATE OF MICHIGAN
v.
SAME.
STATE OF NEW YORK
v.
SAME.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 23, 24, 1928.
Decided January 14, 1929.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mr. Nathan L. Miller, with whom Messrs. Albert Ottinger, Attorney General of New York, Albert J. Danaher, Assistant Attorney General, and Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr., were on the brief, for plaintiffs in No. 12 Original.
Messrs. William M. Potter, Attorney General of Michigan, and Wilber M. Brucker, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Mr. Arthur E. Kidder, Assistant Attorney General, was on the brief, for plaintiff in No. 11 Original.
Messrs. R.T. Jackson, Special Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, and Newton D. Baker, Special Assistant Attorney General of Ohio, with whom Messrs. John W. Reynolds, Attorney General of Wisconsin, Herman L. Ekern, Special Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, Herbert H. Naujoks, Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, G.A. Youngquist, Attorney General of Minnesota, Edward C. Turner, Attorney General of Ohio, and T.J. Baldridge, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, were on the brief, for plaintiffs in No. 7 Original.
Messrs. Cyrus Dietz, James Hamilton Lewis and James M. Beck, with whom Messrs. Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General of Illinois, Maclay Hoyne, Attorney for the Sanitary District of Chicago, Hugh S. Johnson, George F. Barrett, Louis J. Behan, and Edmund D. Adcock were on the brief, for defendants, the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago.
Mr. Daniel N. Kirby, with whom Messrs. Percy Saint, Attorney General of Louisiana, North T. Gentry, Attorney General of Missouri, H.W. Applegate, Attorney General of Arkansas, Rush H. Knox, Attorney General of Mississippi, Frank E. Daugherty, Attorney General of Kentucky, L.D. Smith, Attorney General of Tennessee, and Cornelius Lynde were on the brief, for the intervening defendants Mississippi River States.
Supreme Court of United States.
Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.
These are amended bills by the States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, praying for an injunction against the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from continuing to withdraw 8,500 cubic feet of water a second from Lake Michigan at Chicago.
The Court referred the cause to Charles Evans Hughes as a Special...
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