Gaffey v. Criteser

(after stating the facts as above). Consideration of the record in connection with the authorities cited by the parties, and others not so cited, has convinced us that the judgment of the Oregon court sued upon was not a final judgment in that state, in so far as it provided for the payment by appellant to his former wife periodically after it was rendered of a sum as alimony, and that it therefore was not within the “full faith and credit” clause of the federal Constitution. Article 4, § 1.

In Sistare v. Sistare, 218 U. S. 1, 30 Sup. Ct. 682, 54 L. Ed. 905, 28 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1068, 20 Ann.…