Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Baker
Court of Appeals of Kansas
Error from Geary District Court. Hon. James Humphrey, Judge. In May, 1893, M. S. Baker, the defendant in error, was employed by the Railway Company, plaintiff in error, as a carpenter, and during said month worked twenty-one days at $2.50 per day, and was entitled to receive from the Company the sum of $52.50. During said month, and at all subsequent times hereinafter mentioned, he was a resident of the State of Kansas, and a married man.
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Error from Geary District Court. Hon. James Humphrey, Judge. In May, 1893, M. S. Baker, the defendant in error, was employed by the Railway Company, plaintiff in error, as a carpenter, and during said month worked twenty-one days at $2.50 per day, and was entitled to receive from the Company the sum of $52.50. During said month, and at all subsequent times hereinafter mentioned, he was a resident of the State of Kansas, and a married man. On the thirty-first day of May, 1893, the plaintiff in error was served with garnishment summons issued by F. L. Ferris, a justice of the peace of Sioux…
1Opinion of the CourtGilkeson, P. J.
The principal question involved in this case is as to the validity and effect of the judgment rendered by the Iowa justice of the peace. There is less than one hundred dollars involved, but a question arises under section 1, article 4, of the Constitution of the United States, which provides that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state.
*256Some question has been raised as to the jurisdiction of the Iowa justice of the peace to render the judgment pleaded. While the record is not as full and clear upon this…
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- Allen v. WattIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
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