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LOUISIANA v. TEXAS

No. 6.

176 U.S. 1 (1900)

20 S.Ct. 251

44 L.Ed. 347

LOUISIANA v. TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 15, 1900.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Milton J. Cunningham, Mr. Edgar H. Farrar, Mr. Benjamin F. Jonas, Mr. Ernest B. Kruttschnitt, and Mr. E. Howard McCaleb for the State of Louisiana.

Mr. Thomas S. Smith and Mr. Robert H. Ward for the State of Texas and others.

Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The ninth of the Articles of Confederation of 1778 provided that the Congress should be "the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that may hereafter arise between two or more States concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever," the authority to be exercised through a tribunal to be created by the Congress as prescribed, and whose...

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