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VIRGINIA v. TENNESSEE

No. 3. Original.

148 U.S. 503 (1893)

13 S.Ct. 728

37 L.Ed. 537

VIRGINIA, v. TENNESSEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 3, 1893.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R. Taylor Scott, Attorney General of the State of Virginia, Mr. William F. Rhea and Mr. Rufus A. Ayers, for the State of Virginia.

Mr. George W. Pickle, Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, (with whom was Mr. N.M. Taylor, Mr. H.H. Haynes, Mr. Thomas Curtin and Mr. C.J. St. John on the brief,) Mr. Abram L. Demoss and Mr. A.S. Colyar for the State of Tennessee.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit to establish by judicial decree the true boundary line between the States of Virginia and Tennessee. It embraces a controversy of which this court has original jurisdiction, and in this respect the judicial department of our government is distinguished from the judicial department of any other country, drawing to itself by the ordinary modes of peaceful procedure the settlement of questions as to...

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