U. S. v. GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY

No. 503.

363 U.S. 229 (1960)

80 S.Ct. 1134

4 L.Ed.2d 1186

UNITED STATES v. GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 13, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Rankin argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Assistant Attorney General Morton and Roger P. Marquis.

Jess Larson argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Q. B. Boydstun and Alan Y. Cole.


Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, announced by MR. JUSTICE HARLAN.

Grand River is a nonnavigable tributary of the navigable Arkansas River and flows through Oklahoma. Respondent was created by the Oklahoma Legislature to develop hydroelectric power on the Grand River. It is, to use the statutory language of the law creating it, "a governmental agency and body politic and corporate." Session Laws of Oklahoma, 1935...

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