THE DECISIONS OF THE Supreme Court of the United States AT OCTOBER TERM, 1914. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Complain ant, STATE OF TENNESSEE. (See S. C. Reporter's ed. 1-17.) Boundaries between states lishment by compact. The disputed part of the boundary line between the states of North Carolina and Tennessee, as located by commissions ap pointed by the respective states in 1821, and ratified, confirmed, and established by each state, follows the Slick Rock creck and the Fodderstack ridge rather than the Hangover ridge and thence follows the main ridge of the Unaka mountain southwesterly, crossing the Tellico river, and such line is decreed to be the true boundary line, to be permanently marked by commissioners appointed for that purpose. [For other cases, see Boundaries, III. c., in Digest Sup. Ct. 1908.] [No. 4, Original.] Argued October 15, 16, 1914. Decided Ο' Mr. Thomas W. Bickett, Attorney Gen. eral of North Carolina, and Mr. F. A. Sondley argued the cause, and, with Messrs. Theodore F. Davidson and C. B. Matthews, filed a brief for complainant. Mr. Charles T. Cates, Jr., argued the cause, and, with Mr. Frank M. Thompson, Attorney General of Tennessee, and Messrs, T. E. H. McCroskey and Samuel G. Shields, filed a brief for defendant. Messrs. John Franklin Shields and William A. Stone filed a brief for the Babcock Lumber & Land Company, as amici curiæ. Messrs. W. D. Spears and L. N. Spears filed a brief for Theodore Cobb et al. Mr. Justice Mckenna delivered the opinion of the court: Suit in equity instituted by the state of North Carolina, as complainant, against the state of Tennessee, as defendant, for the purpose of having settled and determined the true location of part of the boundary line between the two states. The pleadings consist of the original bill as amended, answer to the same, cross bill, and replication. Their [3] allegations need RIGINAL suit in equity, brought by not be detailed. They accurately present the State of North Carolina against the the controversy between the parties and the State of Tennessee for the judicial estab-relief prayed by each of them. lishment of a part of the boundary line between the two states. The true boundary adjudged to follow the Slick Rock creck and Fodderstack ridge and thence to follow the main ridge of the Unaka mountain southwesterly, crossing the Tellico river. The controversy concerns only a part of the line between the two states called, respectively, the Slick Rock and Tellico basins or territories. The contentions of the states are exhibited in general outline by the map on the following page. It is alleged by North Carolina "that dispute and controversy have arisen as to the true location of the state line between the extreme height of the mountain north |