Forbes v. Davis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. C. B. Smith. Action by S. P. Davis against E. E. Forbes upon a judgment rendered by tbe city court of Floyd County, Georgia. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. C. B. Smith. Action by S. P. Davis against E. E. Forbes upon a judgment rendered by tbe city court of Floyd County, Georgia. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals. Tbe court erred in admitting tbe transcript of tbe record of tbe city court of Floyd county, first, because tbe courts of Georgia are presumed to be common law courts until tbe contrary is shown.—Henson v. Wall, 20 Ala. 288; Ellis v. White, 25 Ala. 540; Bradford v. Howell, 42 Ala. 422;, Mahone v. Haddock, 44 Ala. 92; Corinth B. & T. Co. v. King, 62 South. 720. Second,…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
This action is by S. P. Davis against E. E. Forbes, and is grounded upon a judgment, in favor of Davis, against Forbes, rendered by the city court of Floyd county, Ga., on April 19, 1911.
Under, the Constitution and laws of the United States each state is required to give full faith and credit to the *74judgments of sister states. Such judgments are not, in a strict sense, foreign judgments; hut the state in which the properly authenticated judgment of a sister state is pleaded or offered in evidence is obliged by the federal mandate to* accord to such judgment the faith credit, and respect that…
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