Cissna v. Tennessee

Citations

• 242 U.S. 195
• 37 S. Ct. 108
• 61 L. Ed. 243
• 1916 U.S. LEXIS 1511

Syllabus

<p>The jurisdiction of this court being here challenged; and it appearing that the facts presented are identical with those on which depends a suit over boundary, brought by the State of Arkansas against the State of Tennessee (defendant in error herein) while this case was pending in the courts of the latter State; that a decision of this case upon the merits will be equivalent to a decision of the boundary controversy and that an affirmance of the judgment will dispose of the avails of nearly or quite all the lands involved in that case and . this; Ordered, that this case be restored to the docket and be assigned for hearing immediately after the boundary case; and that upon a stipulation of the facts of that case by the parties thereto, both cases will be taken on briefs if all parties consent, or advanced for early argument if they prefer.</p>