Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Muelberger
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 12, 1951No. 296PublishedCited by 253 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reed
The right of a daughter to attack in New York the validity of her deceased father’s Florida divorce is before us. She was his legatee. The divorce was granted in Florida after the father appeared there and contested the merits. The issue turns on the effect in New York under these circumstances of the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Federal Constitution.
Eleanor Johnson Muelberger, respondent, is the child of decedent E. Bruce Johnson’s first marriage. After the death of Johnson’s first wife in 1939, he married one Madoline Ham, and they established their residence in New York. In August…
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