Mills v. Duryee
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district. Columbia in an action of debt upon a judgment of the Supreme Court of the state of New York, to which the Defendant below pleaded Nit debet, which plea; upon general demurrer, was adjudged bad. By the constitution Of the United States, art. 4, sect. 4, it is declared, that « full faith and credit shall be ((given, in each state, to the public acts, records and “judicial proceedings of every other state.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district. Columbia in an action of debt upon a judgment of the Supreme Court of the state of New York, to which the Defendant below pleaded Nit debet, which plea; upon general demurrer, was adjudged bad. By the constitution Of the United States, art. 4, sect. 4, it is declared, that « full faith and credit shall be ((given, in each state, to the public acts, records and “judicial proceedings of every other state. And the « Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner “ in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be “ proved, and the effect…
1Opinion of the CourtStory, J.
The question in this case is whether nil debet is a good plea to an action of debt brought in the Courts of this district on a judgment rendered in a Court of record of the state of New York, one of the United States,
The decision of this question' deperids altogethed upon the construction of the constitution and laws of the ■ United States.
By the constitution it is declared that « full faith and “ credit shall be given in each state to the public acts,- “ records and judicial proceedings of every other state; “ and the congress may, by general laws, prescribe the “ manner in which such acts,…
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