Rand v. Hanson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, against the administratrix of the estate of Sarah E. Hanson, on a judgment recovered against the intestate in New Hampshire. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court, on appeal, on agreed facts, in substance as follows.
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Contract, against the administratrix of the estate of Sarah E. Hanson, on a judgment recovered against the intestate in New Hampshire. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court, on appeal, on agreed facts, in substance as follows. On October 25,1877, the plaintiff, a resident of Rochester, New Hampshire, began an action in the Supreme Court of that State against the intestate, who was a resident of Haverhill in this Commonwealth, by a writ returnable to the February term of 1878 of that court. The intestate was not in New Hampshire at…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The judgment rendered against the defendant’s intestate by the Supreme Court of New Hampshire was void for want of jurisdiction, unless a proper process was served on her in that State. Eliot v. McCormick, 144 Mass. 10. Needham v. Thayer, 147 Mass. 536. Pennoyer v. Neff, 95 U. S. 714. Eaton v. Badger, 33 N. H. 228. There is a presumption in favor of the regularity of the proceedings of any court of general jurisdiction. Bissell v. Wheelock, 11 Cush. 277. Stockwell v. McCracken, 109 Mass. 84. But it is always a good defence against a suit brought on a judgment recovered in another State, to…
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