Kansas v. Colorado
Supreme Court of the United States
The State of Kansas, by leave of court, filed her bill of complaint against the State of Colorado on May 20, 1901, which, after stating that Kansas was admitted into the Union, January 29, 1861, and Colorado, August 1, 1876, averred: That the Arkansas River rises in the Rocky Mountains in the State of Colorado and flows through certain counties of that State, and thence across the line into the State of Kansas; its tributaries in Colorado have their rise and entire flow in…
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The State of Kansas, by leave of court, filed her bill of complaint against the State of Colorado on May 20, 1901, which, after stating that Kansas was admitted into the Union, January 29, 1861, and Colorado, August 1, 1876, averred: That the Arkansas River rises in the Rocky Mountains in the State of Colorado and flows through certain counties of that State, and thence across the line into the State of Kansas; its tributaries in Colorado have their rise and entire flow in that State; the length of the river therein is approximately two hundred and eighty miles, and the drainage area of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
The original jurisdiction of this court over “ controversies between two or more States ” was declared by the judiciary act of 1789 to be exclusive, as in its nature it necessarily must be.
Reference to the language of the Constitution providing for its exercise, to its historical origin, to the decisions of this court in w.hich the subject has received consideration, which was made at length in Missouri v. Illinois, 180 U. S. 208, demonstrates the comprehensiveness, the importance and the gravity of this grant of power, and the sagacious foresight of those by whom it was framed. By the first…
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