Florida v. Georgia

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Florida v. Georgia was a case heard in December 1854 before the U.S. Supreme Court, under its original jurisdiction in state-versus-state matters. The court case was brought by the U.S. state of Florida against the state of Georgia, regarding most of the boundary between the two.

Florida claimed that the state line was a straight line (called McNeil's line, for the man who surveyed it for the U.S. government) from the confluence of Georgia's Chattahoochee and Flint rivers (forming the Apalachicola River, at a point now under Lake Seminole), east and very slightly south to the beginning of the St. Mary's River, then along it to the Atlantic Ocean. Georgia claimed that the eastern point of the straight line should be some 30 miles or nearly 50 kilometers south, at Lake Spalding or Lake Randolph, and then along the river.

The court ruled in favor of Florida, and it is along McNeil's line that the state line still runs today.

There are also three other boundary disputes which Georgia has had with its neighbors before the court: Alabama v. Georgia in 1859, and two Georgia v. South Carolina cases in 1922 and 1990. Additionally, South Carolina v. Georgia in 1876 was a dispute over navigation in a boundary river.