WISCONSIN ET AL.
v.
ILLINOIS ET AL.
MICHIGAN
v.
ILLINOIS ET AL.
NEW YORK
v.
ILLINOIS ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 12, 13, 1930.
Decided April 14, 1930.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Messrs. Raymond T. Jackson, Special Assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin; Gilbert Bettman, Attorney General of Ohio; Wilbur M. Brucker, Attorney General of Michigan; and Newton D. Baker, Special Assistant Attorney General of Ohio; with whom Messrs. John W. Reynolds, Attorney General, Herman L. Ekern, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Herbert H. Naujoks, Assistant Attorney General, of Wisconsin; Henry N. Benson, Attorney General of Minnesota; and Cyrus E. Wood, Attorney General and Thomas E. Taylor, Deputy Attorney General, of Pennsylvania, were on the brief, for the complainant States of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
Mr. Hamilton Ward, Attorney General of New York, submitted for the complainant State of New York.
Messrs. John W. Davis, James M. Beck and Edmund D. Adcock, with whom Messrs. Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General of Illinois, Walter E. Beebe, George F. Barrett, James Hamilton Lewis, Louis J. Behan, William P. Sidley and Cornelius Lynde were on the brief, for the defendants, the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago.*
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.
These suits, brought to prevent the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from continuing to withdraw water from Lake Michigan as they now are doing, have passed through their first stage in this Court. The facts were set forth in detail and the law governing the parties was established by the decision reported in 278 U.S. 367...
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