State of Michigan v. State of Wisconsin
| Decision Date | 22 November 1926 |
| Docket Number | No. 9,O,9 |
| Citation | 47 S.Ct. 114,272 U.S. 398,71 L.Ed. 315 |
| Parties | STATE OF MICHIGAN v. STATE OF WISCONSIN. riginal |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Messrs. Andrew B. Dougherty, Atty. Gen., and Carl D. Mosier, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Michigan, and Meredith P. Sawyer, Sp. Counsel, of Menominee, Mich., for the State of Michigan.
Messrs. Herman L. Ekern, Atty. Gen. of Wisconsin, and R. M. Rieser, of Madison, Wis., for the State of Wisconsin.
Decree announced by Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND:
This cause having been heard and submitted upon certain questions, and the court having considered the same and announced its conclusions in an opinion delivered March 1, 1926 (270 U. S. 295, 46 S. Ct. 290, 70 L. Ed. 595):
Now, for the purpose of carrying the said opinion into effect, it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed:
1. That the boundary between the states of Michigan and Wisconsin along the following course be and it is hereby fixed and finally established as follows:
From Lake Superior trhough the middle of the main channel of the Montreal river, to the headwaters thereof, as established in the survey of Captain Cram at the junction of the Pine river and Balsam creek (also known as Lehman's creek); thence along the line of the survey of William A. Burt of 1847, to the center of the channel between middle and South Islands in the Lake of the Desert; thence continuing along the line of said survey to the Shore of Lake Brule ; thence along the southerly shore of Lake Brule to the center of the main channel of the River Brule ; thence down the center of the main channel of the rivers Brule and Menominee to the center of the harbor entrance of said Menominee river; thence in a direct line to the most usual ship channel of Green Bay, passing to the north of Green Island and westerly of Chambers Island and through the Rock Island Passage into Lake Michigan, by courses and distances as follows: From a point midway between the outer ends of the Menominee river piers; thence east by south, seven and one-half miles to the center of the most usual ship channel of the Green Bay; thence along said ship channel north by east one-eighth east, eight and seven-eighths miles; thence continuing along said ship channel north by east seven-eights east, twenty-seven miles; thence continuing along said ship channel, east one-fourth north, ten and one-fourth miles; thence east three-fourths north to the boundary between the state of Michigan and the state of Wisconsin in the middle of Lake Michigan: Provided, that ...
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