Frame v. Thormann
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Waukesha county:. James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. They contended, inter alia, that the lower court failed to give “ full faith and credit” to the judgment and judicial proceedings of the Louisiana court, in violation of sec. 1, art. IT, Const, of IJ. S. That judgment was a decree in rem rendered by a probate court, and as such is binding upon the world.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Waukesha county:. James J. Dick, Circuit Judge. They contended, inter alia, that the lower court failed to give “ full faith and credit” to the judgment and judicial proceedings of the Louisiana court, in violation of sec. 1, art. IT, Const, of IJ. S. That judgment was a decree in rem rendered by a probate court, and as such is binding upon the world. Bigelow, Estoppel (1st ed.), 159; Grignon? s Lessee v. Astor, 2 How. 338; Black, Judgments, § 868; Ereeman, Judgments, §§ 3195,608; Broderields Will, 21 Wall. 509; Holmes v. O. dé C. H. Co. 9 Eed.…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, C. J.
Joseph Eabacher died March 3, 1897, at Touro Infirmary, in New Orleans, leaving a paper writing, purporting to be his last will and testament, bearing date October 29, 1896, and executed at Waukesha, Wisconsin, and which writing (omitting the formal parts) is to the effect (1) that the testator directed all his just debts, funeral expenses, and expenses of administration to he paid out of his personal estate; (2) that he donated and bequeathed to his beloved wife, Magdalena, the income of $20,000 of four per cent. New Orleans city bonds, to be paid by his executor *658or trustee of his last will…
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