Note 585 — ARTICLE III (continued 3)

157 U.S. 229, 261 (1895). Here the Court refused to take jurisdiction on the ground that the City of Oakland and the Oakland Water Company, a citizen of California, were so situated that they would have to be brought into the case, which would make it then a suit between a State and citizens of another State and its own citizens. The same rule was followed in New Mexico v. Lane, 243 U.S. 52, 58 (1917); and in Louisiana v. Cummins, 314 U.S. 577 (1941). See also Texas v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 258 U.S. 158, 163 (1922). For the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in specific classes of cases see the discussion of suits affecting ambassadors and suits between States, supra, pp. 571, 591-593.