Alabama v. Georgia

Alabama v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 1, 1860
Full case name	State of Alabama v. State of Georgia
Citations	64 U.S. 505 (more) 23 How. 505; 16 L. Ed. 556
Holding
The true border between the states of Alabama and Georgia is the average water mark on the western bank of the Chattahoochee River
Court membership
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney Associate Justices John McLean · James M. Wayne John Catron · Peter V. Daniel Samuel Nelson · Robert C. Grier John A. Campbell · Nathan Clifford
Case opinion
Majority	Wayne, joined by unanimous court

State of Alabama v. State of Georgia, 64 U.S. (23 How.) 505 (1860), is a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the true border between the states of Alabama and Georgia was the average water mark on the western bank of the Chattahoochee River. In coming to its conclusion, the Court defined what constituted the bed and bank of a river.^[1][2] The case has had international repercussions as well. The Supreme Court's definition was adopted by courts in the United Kingdom in the case Hindson v. Ashby (1896) 65 LJ Ch. 515, 2 Ch. 27.^[2]