Eastern Building and Loan Assn. v. Williamson
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. This action was commenced on January 12, 1898, in the Circuit Court of Darlington County, South Carolina, by Bright Williamson against the Eastern Building and Loan Association of Syracuse, New York, to recover the face value of twenty-five shares of stock in the defendant association, less a sum theretofore borrowed b}"- the plaintiff from the association.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. This action was commenced on January 12, 1898, in the Circuit Court of Darlington County, South Carolina, by Bright Williamson against the Eastern Building and Loan Association of Syracuse, New York, to recover the face value of twenty-five shares of stock in the defendant association, less a sum theretofore borrowed b}"- the plaintiff from the association. Judgment in his favor for the full amount claimed was rendered in the trial, affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State, 62 S. C. 390, and thence brought here on this writ of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The Federal question presented arises-on the contention that the South Carolina courts did. not give “ full faith and credit . . . to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings” of the State of -New York, as required by'section 1, article IY,of the Constitution of the United States.
Courts of one State do not take judicial notice of the laws of another State, whether written or unwritten. They must be proved as facts. Talbot v. Seeman, 1 Cranch, 1, 38 ; Livingston v. The Maryland Insurance Co., 6 Cranch, 274; Ennis v. Smith, 14 How. 400, 426; Pierce v. Indseth, 106 U. S. 546, 551;…
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