Brown v. Desmond

The supreme court of the United States, in the exercise of the original jurisdiction conferred upon it by the Constitution, in a suit brought by this Commonwealth against the state of Rhode Island, made a decree on the 16th of December 1861, which took effect on the 1st of March 1862, and by which the boundary line between the two states was finally settled and established, and the territory, which had formerly constituted the town of Fall River in the state of Rhode Island, was declared to be part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and now constitutes part of the city of Fall River in…