United States v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. Bx the act of May 2, 1890, c. 182, § 25, 26 Stat. 81, 92, the Attorney General of the United States was “ directed to commence in the name' and on behalf of the United States, and prosecute to a final determination, a proper suit in equity in the Supreme Court of the United States against the State of Texas, setting forth the title and claim of the United States to the tract of land lying between the North and South Forks of the Ned River where .the Indian…
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ORIGINAL. Bx the act of May 2, 1890, c. 182, § 25, 26 Stat. 81, 92, the Attorney General of the United States was “ directed to commence in the name' and on behalf of the United States, and prosecute to a final determination, a proper suit in equity in the Supreme Court of the United States against the State of Texas, setting forth the title and claim of the United States to the tract of land lying between the North and South Forks of the Ned River where .the Indian Territory and the State of Texas adjoin, east, of the one hundredth degree of longitude, and claimed by the State of Texas as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Haelak
By the act of Congress of May 2, 1890, c. 182, establishing a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma, arid enlarging the jurisdiction of the United States court in the Indian Territory, it was declared that that act should not apply to “ Greer County ” until the title to the same had been adjudicated and determined to be in the United States. And that there might be a speedy judicial determination of that question the Attorney General of' the United States was directed to institute in this court á suit in equity against the State of Texas, setting forth the title and claim of the…
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