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GEORGIA v. CHATTANOOGA.

No. 21, Original.

264 U.S. 472 (1924)

44 S.Ct. 369

68 L.Ed. 796

STATE OF GEORGIA v. CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 7, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Sam E. Whitaker, for defendant, in support of the motion to dismiss the bill.

Mr. George M. Napier, Attorney General of the State of Georgia, and Mr. William L. Frierson, with whom Mr. Robert H. Williams and Mr. Joe V. Williams were on the brief, for complainant, in opposition to the motion to dismiss the bill.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

The State of Georgia obtained leave to file its bill of complaint in this Court in a suit against the City of Chattanooga to enjoin it from appropriating for street purposes certain lands constituting a part of a railroad yard which that State owns in Chattanooga.

The substance of the bill may be stated briefly. In 1837, Georgia undertook the construction of a...

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