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KENTUCKY v. INDIANA

No. 16, Original.

281 U.S. 163 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 275

74 L.Ed. 784

KENTUCKY v. INDIANA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 14, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Clifford E. Smith, Assistant Attorney General of Kentucky, with whom Messrs. J.W. Cammack, Attorney General, and M.B. Holifield, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Mr. Thomas P. Littlepage presented the oral argument, and Messrs. Fred C. Gause, Walter Pritchard, Frank H. Hatfield, and Louis L. Roberts, were on the brief, for the individual defendants.

Messrs. Arthur L. Gillion, former Attorney General of Indiana, James M. Ogden, Attorney General, and Connor D. Ross, Assistant Attorney General, were on the briefs for the State of Indiana.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

In September, 1928, the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the State of Indiana, by their respective Highway Commissions, entered into a contract for the building of a bridge across the Ohio River between Evansville, Indiana, and Henderson, Kentucky. The contract was approved by the Governor and, as to legality and form, also by the Attorney General, of each State. The contract recited the acts of Congress and...

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