Indiana v. Kentucky
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. In equity, to settle, and determine the boundary line between the States of Indiana and Kentucky. On the 20th day of December, 1783, the legislature of Yirginia by statute authorized and empowered the delegates of the State in the.
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ORIGINAL. In equity, to settle, and determine the boundary line between the States of Indiana and Kentucky. On the 20th day of December, 1783, the legislature of Yirginia by statute authorized and empowered the delegates of the State in the. Congress of the- United States “ for and on behalf of this State, by proper deeds or instrument-in writing, under their hands and seals, to convey, transfer, assign and make over unto the United States, in Congress assembled, for the benefit of the said States, all right, title and claim, as well of soil as’jurisdiction, which this Common-' wealth hath to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This is a controversy between the State of Indiana and the State of Kentucky growing out of their respective claims to the possession of and jurisdiction over a tract of land nearly five miles in length and over half a mile in width, embracing about two thousand acres, lying on what is now the north side of the- Ohio River.
Kentucky alleges that when she became a State on the 1st of June, 1792, this tract was an island in the Ohio River, and was thus within her boundaries, which had been prescribed by the act of Yirginia creating the District of Kentucky. The territory assigned to her was…
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