Hall v. Williams
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was debt on a judgment rendered by the Superior Court of the State of Georgia. Nu'l iiel record was pleaded with a brief statement, and issue joined thereon.
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This was debt on a judgment rendered by the Superior Court of the State of Georgia. Nu'l iiel record was pleaded with a brief statement, and issue joined thereon. The plaintiffs adduced in evidence, an exemplification of the records of the Court in Georgia, by which it appeared that original process was commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant and one Abijah Fislce, former copartners in business under the style of E. Williams &r Co., May 4, 1824. That, judgment was rendered against both, February 12, 1825, though Fislce had had no notice of the suit, being at the time out of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered at the ensuing June term, in this county, by
Parris J.
The first section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides, “ That full faith “ and credit shall be given, in each State, to the public acts, “ records, and judicial proceedings of every other State. And “ the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in “ which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, “ and the eiiect thereof.” In pursuance of this power, an act was passed prescribing the mode of proof, and declaring “ That “ the said records and…
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