Cole v. Cunningham
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. The case, as.stated by the court, was as follows: Daniel' C. Bird, a citizen and inhabitant of ■ Massachusetts, unable to meet his bills at maturity, suspended pajunent March 2, 1885, being at the time indebted to Butler, Hayden & Co., a copartnership composed of Charles S. Butler and N. F. T. Hayden, citizens and residents of Massachusetts, doing business in that State. On the night of the 4th or 5th of.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. The case, as.stated by the court, was as follows: Daniel' C. Bird, a citizen and inhabitant of ■ Massachusetts, unable to meet his bills at maturity, suspended pajunent March 2, 1885, being at the time indebted to Butler, Hayden & Co., a copartnership composed of Charles S. Butler and N. F. T. Hayden, citizens and residents of Massachusetts, doing business in that State. On the night of the 4th or 5th of. March, 1885, Butler, Hayden & Co. were informed by Bird that he had stopped payment, and that the firm of Aaron Claflin &…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The question to be determined is, whether a decree of the Supreme Judicial. Court of Massachusetts, restraining citizens of that "commonwealth. from the prosecution of attachment suits in New York, brought by them for the purpose of evading the laws of their domicil, should be reversed upon the ground that such judicial" action in Massachusetts was in violation of Article 4, sections 1 and 2 of the Constitution of the United States, which read as follows:
“ Sec. 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in,-each State to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other State. And…
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