Nielsen v. Oregon
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON. ■ Plaintiff in error was convicted in a justice’s court of the precinct of. Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon, of maintaining and operating a purse :net on the Columbia River, contrary to the. statutes of Pregón. This conviction was, by proper proceedings, taken to the Supreme Court of the State and the ■judgment affirmed, 95 Pac. Rep. 720. From that decision the case has been brought here on error.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON. ■ Plaintiff in error was convicted in a justice’s court of the precinct of. Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon, of maintaining and operating a purse :net on the Columbia River, contrary to the. statutes of Pregón. This conviction was, by proper proceedings, taken to the Supreme Court of the State and the ■judgment affirmed, 95 Pac. Rep. 720. From that decision the case has been brought here on error. According to the agreed statement of facts, plaintiff in error was an. actual and bona fide resident and inhabitant of the State of Washington and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
By the legislation of Congress the, Columbia River is made the common boundary between Oregon and Washington, and to each of those States is given concurrent jurisdiction on the waters of that river. - How that jurisdiction is to be exercised, what limitations there are, if any, upon the power of either State, is not in terms prescribed. It is-true in the first section of the act admitting Oregon the jurisdiction was apparently limited to “civil and criminal cases,” but in the' second section of that act there was given in general terms “ concurrent jurisdiction.” In Wedding v. Meyler, 192 U.…
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