United States v. Michigan
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. IN EQUITY. The United States, by leave of court, duly filed in this court its original bill in equity against the State of Michigan, to which bill the defendant has filed a demurrer substantially for want of equity, and also because it appears therefrom that the complainant has been guilty of gross laches in regard to the matters therein set forth.
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ORIGINAL. IN EQUITY. The United States, by leave of court, duly filed in this court its original bill in equity against the State of Michigan, to which bill the defendant has filed a demurrer substantially for want of equity, and also because it appears therefrom that the complainant has been guilty of gross laches in regard to the matters therein set forth. It will be most convenient to set forth the bill with the exception of some portions thereof which do not seem to be material, and it is as follows: “ To the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Peckham,
after making the foregoing statement of facts, .delivered the opinion of the court.
By its bill the United States invokes the original jurisdiction •.of this court' for the purpose of determining a controversy existing between it and the State of Michigan. This court has jurisdiction of such a controversy, although it is not literally between two-States, the. Unite'd States being a party on the one side and a State on the other. This was decided in United States v. Texas, 143 U. S. 621, 642.
In the consideration of this case, the controlling thought must of course be to…
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