Hanna v. . Stedman
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an unanimous judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 7, 1919, in favor of defendant upon the submission of a controversy under section 1279 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
1Opinion of the Court
Hiscock, Ch. J.
This appeal requires us to determine, first, which of two conflicting judgments rendered respectively by courts of the states of New York and Maryland was the superior and controlling adjudication upon rights here involved, and, secondly, if we should decide that the Maryland judgment was originally the controlling one, whether the right to enforce that judgment injfchis state has become barred by the Statute of Limitations.
'"The defendant is a voluntary, unincorporated fraternal beneficiary association which during all the times in question has maintained its principal office…
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