Louisiana v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. The State of Louisiana by her Governor applied to this court for leave to file a bill of complaint against the State of Texas, her Governor ahd her health officer.- Argument was had on objections to granting leave, but it appearing to the court the better course in this instance, leave was granted, and the bill filed, whereupon defendants demurred, and the cause was submitted on the oral argument, already had and printed briefs.
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ORIGINAL. The State of Louisiana by her Governor applied to this court for leave to file a bill of complaint against the State of Texas, her Governor ahd her health officer.- Argument was had on objections to granting leave, but it appearing to the court the better course in this instance, leave was granted, and the bill filed, whereupon defendants demurred, and the cause was submitted on the oral argument, already had and printed briefs. The bill alleged: “That the city of New Orleans, one of the great commercial cities of this republic, and the second export city of this continent,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The ninth of the Articles of Confederation of 1778 provided that the Congress should be “ the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that may hereafter arise between two or more States concerning boundary, jurisdiction-or any other cause whatever,” the authority to be exercised through a tribunal to-be created by the Congress as prescribed, and whose- judgment should be final and conclusive; and also that “ all controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more States ” should be determined in the same manner.
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