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COOSAW MINING CO. v. SOUTH CAROLINA

No. 1448.

144 U.S. 550 (1892)

12 S.Ct. 689

36 L.Ed. 537

COOSAW MINING COMPANY, v. SOUTH CAROLINA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 4, 1892.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Augustine T. Smythe and Mr. Edward McCrady for appellant.

Mr. Henry A.M. Smith and Mr. George S. Mower for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The Coosaw Mining Company undoubtedly acquired by the act of 1870, and upon the conditions therein prescribed, the right, for the full term of twenty-one years, to dig, mine and remove phosphate rocks and phosphatic deposits in the navigable waters of South Carolina. But the right thus acquired was not made an exclusive one. The State was at liberty, so far as that act was concerned, to...

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