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Show 530 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS The conclusion we have come to on the main issue of fact that Minnesota is not responsible for the floods of which complaint is made, makes it unnecessary for us to consider this evidence as to a practical remedy for them, and requires us to leave the opinions and suggestions of the expert engineers for the consideration of the two States in a possible effort by either or both to remedy existing condi- tions in this basin. The hill is dismissed without prejudice* NOTES Taxation of costs.-In a subsequent opinion (263 U.S. 583 (1924)), the Court considered, at the request of its Clerk, the taxation of costs in the above litigation. After pointing out that in boundary dispute cases, where "each party has a real and vital, and yet not a litigious, interest," it had been the practice to divide the costs, it was held that the rule was otherwise in those "cases in which the parties have a litigious interest." In the present case, the Court concluded, costs should be taxed against the defeated party. Related compact.-See Eed River of the North compact, pp. 255ff ante. |