Legal Opinion
Michigan v. Wisconsin
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1926No. 19, OriginalPublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sutherland
This is an original suit in equity brought in this court to determine the boundary between the states of Michr igan and Wisconsin from the mouth of the Montreal River at Lake Superior to the ship channel entrance from Lake Michigan into Green Bay. By the Enabling Act of June 15, 1836, c. 99, 5 Stat. 49, under which Michigan became a state in 1837, c. 6, 5 Stat. 144, this boundary is described as follows:
“. . . thence [the mouth of the Montreal River] through the middle of the main channel of the said River Montreal, to the middle of the Lake of the Desert; thence, in a direct line to the…
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