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KANSAS v. MISSOURI

No. 9, original.

322 U.S. 213 (1944)

64 S.Ct. 975

88 L.Ed. 1234

KANSAS v. MISSOURI.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 8, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph E. Schroeder, with whom Messrs. A.B. Mitchell, Attorney General of Kansas, and Clarence V. Beck were on the brief, for complainant.

Messrs. Tyre W. Burton and Frank W. Hayes, Assistant Attorneys General of Missouri, with whom Mr. Roy McKittrick, Attorney General, was on the brief, for defendant.

MR. JUSTICE RUTLEDGE delivered the opinion of the Court.

Kansas brings this original suit against Missouri to have determined their common boundary from the mouth of the Kaw or Kansas River northwardly, over a distance of approximately 128 miles, along the channel of the Missouri River to its intersection with Kansas' north boundary line.

At the time of Kansas' admission to the Union, January 29, 1861, the western boundary of Missouri followed the

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