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TEXAS v. LOUISIANA

No. 36, Orig.

410 U.S. 702 (1973)

93 S.Ct. 1215

35 L.Ed.2d 646

TEXAS v. LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 20, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel D. McDaniel argued the cause for plaintiff in support of the Report of the Special Master. On the brief were Crawford C. Martin, Attorney General of Texas, Nola White, First Assistant Attorney General, and Houghton Brownlee, Jr., J. Arthur Sandlin, and James H. Quick, Assistant Attorneys General.

Oliver P. Stockwell, Special Assistant Attorney General of Louisiana, argued the cause for defendant on exceptions to the Report of the Special Master. With him on the brief were William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General, John L. Madden, Assistant Attorney General, and Sam H. Jones, Jacob H. Morrison, and Emmett C. Sole, Special Assistant Attorneys General.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

Texas brought this original action against Louisiana to establish its rights to the jurisdiction and ownership of the western half of Sabine Pass, Sabine Lake, and Sabine River (collectively Sabine) from the mouth of the Sabine in the Gulf of Mexico to the thirty-second degree of north latitude, and to obtain a decree confirming the boundary of the two States as the geographic...

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