Hart v. Calkins Manufacturing Co.

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

The question for decision is whether, in a suit to enforce a judgment rendered by a court of another state, a copy of the judgment properly authenticated pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 1738 (1966) 1 , is stripped of its presumption of validity, for purposes of summary judgment, solely by reason of the fact that a portion of the typewritten judgment appears to have been changed by pencil or ink interlineation. We hold that in the absence of summary judgment proof that the judgment was improperly altered subsequent to its rendition, its presumption of validity is not…