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Texas v. New Mexico et al., 1954 — 348 U.S. 805 · caselaw · US
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Texas v. New Mexico et al.
348 U.S. 805·Supreme Court of the United States·1954
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No. 9,
Original.
Texas v. New Mexico et al.
John Ben Shepperd, Attorney General, Burnell Waldrep, Assistant Attorney General, and Eugene T. Edwards, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Texas, plaintiff.
Richard Robinson, Attorney General, and Fred E. Wilson, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of New Mexico, and Martin A. Threet and D. A. Macpherson, Jr. for the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District et al., defendants.
[MAJORITY]
The plaintiff’s motion for leave to amend the prayer of its complaint is hereby referred to John Raeburn Green, Special Master, to hear the parties and report his opinion and recommendation as to whether the motion should be granted and whether if granted it would cure any defect of parties herein.