MISSOURI v. KENTUCKY

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78 U.S. 395 (1871)

11 Wall. 395

20 L.Ed. 116

MISSOURI, v. KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 1-2, 1871.

March 27, 1871.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. M. Blair and F.A. Dick, in behalf of the State of Missouri, complainant; and by Messrs. G. Davis and H. Stanbery, on the other side.


Mr. Justice DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court.

It is unnecessary, for the purposes of this suit, to consider whether, on general principles, the middle of the channel of a navigable river which divides coterminous States, is not the true boundary between them, in the absence of express agreement to the contrary, because the treaty between France, Spain, and England, in February, 1763, stipulated that the middle of the...

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