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WYOMING v. COLORADO

No. 3, Original.

259 U.S. 419 (1922)

42 S.Ct. 552

66 L.Ed. 999

STATE OF WYOMING v. STATE OF COLORADO ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 5, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. N.E. Corthell and Mr. John W. Lacey, with whom Mr. Douglas A. Preston, Attorney General of the State of Wyoming, Mr. John D. Clark and Mr. Herbert V. Lacey were on the briefs, for complainant.

Mr. Victor E. Keyes, Attorney General of the State of Colorado, Mr. Delph E. Carpenter and Mr. Platt Rogers, with whom Mr. Leslie E. Hubbard, Mr. Fred Farrar, Mr. Julius C. Gunter and Mr. Ralph E.C. Kerwin were on the briefs, for defendants.1

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Riter, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. John F. Truesdell, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.1

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an original suit in this court by the State of Wyoming against the State of Colorado and two Colorado corporations to prevent a proposed diversion in Colorado of part of the waters of the Laramie River, an interstate stream. The bill was brought in 1911, the evidence was taken in 1913 and 1914, and the parties put...

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