Legal Opinion
Arkansas v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 16, 1953No. ORIGPublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
This is a motion by Arkansas to file a complaint against Texas and invoke our original jurisdiction granted by Art. Ill, § 2, of the Constitution.
The complaint alleges that the University of Arkansas, acting through its Board of Trustees, and the William Buchanan Foundation, a corporation organized under the laws of Texas, entered into a contract whereby the Foundation agreed to contribute a sum of $500,000 to the construction of a one-hundred-bed pediatric floor in a new hospital in the Arkansas State Medical Center. The allegations are that, though the University of Arkansas and the…
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