Bates v. Smith

This is a suit to collect in Texas a South Dakota judgment. The trial court rendered a summary judgment for the plaintiff and defendant appealed. Defendant here and her husband were defendants in the South Dakota suit. That case was appealed to the Supreme Court of South Dakota whose opinion is recorded in 65 N.W. 2d 137. She has in her possession a house trailer which was the subject of foreclosure in that suit. Here she attacks the jurisdiction of the South Dakota court on the grounds that she was not properly served there and neither did she appear there. The principal question here is…