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• Title: Nielsen v. State Oregon
• Author : Supreme Court of the United States
• Release Date : January 23, 1909
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 57 KB

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MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. By the legislation of Congress the Columbia River is made the common boundary between Oregon and Washington, and to each of those States is given concurrent jurisdiction on the waters of that river. How that jurisdiction is to be exercised, what limitations there are, if any, upon the power of either State, is not in terms prescribed. It is true in the first section of the act admitting Oregon the jurisdiction was apparently limited to ""civil and criminal cases,"" but in the second section of that act there was given in general terms ""concurrent jurisdiction."" In Wedding v. Meyler, 192 U.S. 573, 584, construing the term ""concurrent jurisdiction,"" as given to Kentucky and Indiana over the Ohio River, this court, reversing the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, said:

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