WEST VIRGINIA EX REL. DYER ET AL.
v.
SIMS, STATE AUDITOR.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued December 5, 1950.
Decided April 9, 1951.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
John B. Hollister argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief were William C. Marland, Attorney General of West Virginia, Thomas J. Gillooly, Assistant Attorney General, and Leonard A. Weakley.
Charles C. Wise, Jr. argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.
Briefs of amici curiae supporting petitioners were filed on behalf of the United States by Solicitor General Perlman, Oscar H. Davis, Alanson W. Willcox and Gladys A. Harrison; on behalf of the States of Illinois by Ivan A. Elliott, Attorney General, and Lucien S. Field and William C. Wines, Assistant Attorneys General, Indiana by J. Emmett McManamon, Attorney General, Kentucky by A. E. Funk, Attorney General, and Squire N. Williams, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, New York by Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney General, Ohio by Herbert S. Duffy, Attorney General, William C. Bryant, Chief Counsel to the Attorney General, and W. H. Annat and Hugh A. Sherer, Assistant Attorneys General, and Pennsylvania by Charles J. Margiotti, then Attorney General, M. Vashti Burr, Deputy Attorney General, and Harry F. Stambaugh; and on behalf of the State of Pennsylvania by Charles J. Margiotti, then Attorney General, M. Vashti Burr, Deputy Attorney General, and Harry F. Stambaugh.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.
After extended negotiations eight States entered into a Compact to control pollution in the Ohio River system. See Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Compact, 54 Stat. 752. Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia recognized that they were faced with one of the problems of government that are defined by natural rather than...
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