Virginia v. Tennessee
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. , The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
- Mr. Justice Field
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit to establish by judicial decree the true boundary line between the States of Virginia and Tennessee. It embraces a controversy of which this court has original jurisdiction, and in this respect the judicial department of our government is distinguished from the judicial department of any other country, drawing to itself by the ordinary modes of peaceful procedure the-settlement of questions as to boundaries and consequent rights of soil and jurisdiction between States, possessed, for purposes of internal government, of the…
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