Great Western Telegraph Co. v. Purdy
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OF IOWA. This was an action brought August 30, 1888, in the district court of Des Moines county in the State of Iowa, by the Great Western Telegraph Company, a corporation of Illinois, by its receiver, Elias E. Bowen, against Hiram Purdy, a citizen of Iowa, to recover the sum of $437.50, with interest from July 10, 1886, alleged to be due from him to the company under his subscription to it's stock, and under a decree of the circuit…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OF IOWA. This was an action brought August 30, 1888, in the district court of Des Moines county in the State of Iowa, by the Great Western Telegraph Company, a corporation of Illinois, by its receiver, Elias E. Bowen, against Hiram Purdy, a citizen of Iowa, to recover the sum of $437.50, with interest from July 10, 1886, alleged to be due from him to the company under his subscription to it's stock, and under a decree of the circuit court of Cook County in the State of Illinois of that date, which ordered an assessment upon the stockholders of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Geay
By art. 4, sect. 1, of the Constitution of the United States, “ Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public abts, records and judicial proceedings of every other State. And Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved and the effect thereof.” In the exercise of the power so conferred, Congress, besides providing the manner in which the records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State shall be authenticated, has enacted that “ the said records and 'judicial proceedings, so authenticated, shall…
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