Legal Opinion

Oklahoma v. Textas

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 11, 1921No. 23, OriginalPublishedCited by 161 opinions

The case is stated in the opinion, post 81. (See post, 602.)

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney

This is a suit in equity in our original jurisdiction, brought by the State of Oklahoma against the State of Texas, to establish the true boundary line between those States where it follows the course of the Red River from the 100th degree of west longitude to the easterly boundary of Oklahoma. The bill avers that by the third article of a treaty concluded February 22, 1819, and ratified and proclaimed February 22, 1821 (8 Stat. 252), between the United States of America and the Kang of Spain, who had sovereignty over the territory now known as Texas but then a part of Mexico, the boundary…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Southern Pacific Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. Russell v. PlaceSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  3. United States v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  4. Last Chance Mining Co. v. Tyler Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1895
  5. Arkansas v. TennesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 1918

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3Cited by161 opinions

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  3. Local 167, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  4. Oklahoma v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
  5. Davis v. First National Bank of WacoTexas Supreme Court · 1942

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