Faber v. Hovey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a judgment of the Supreme Court of the County and State of New York. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and to this court on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts in substance as follows : A judgment was recovered in the State of New York, at the time and for the amount alleged, by the plaintiff against these defendants.
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Contract on a judgment of the Supreme Court of the County and State of New York. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and to this court on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts in substance as follows : A judgment was recovered in the State of New York, at the time and for the amount alleged, by the plaintiff against these defendants. An appeal was duly taken, under the laws of New York, from said judgment to the general term of the Supreme Court of that State, and the said appeal was there pending at the commencement of this action, and is still there pending. By the laws of New…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The Constitution of the United States declares that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state: and empowers Congress by general laws to prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. Const. U. S. art. 4, § 1. Congress, in the exercise of the power thus conferred, has provided that the records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any state, authenticated as therein prescribed, “ shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within…
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