Civil case files. Series 2, [ca. 1897-ca. 1966].

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Civil case files. Series 2, [ca. 1897-ca. 1966].

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Selected civil case files of the attorney general's office, containing materials that supplement the Minnesota supreme court's files for the same cases.

111.0 cu. ft. (111 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...