Johnston v. Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeals by defendant from judgments of the City Court of the city of New York, rendered after trial, without jury, in favor of the plaintiff. Actions upon judgments of the State Court of North Carolina.
1Opinion of the CourtFreedman, P. J.
These actions aré brought upon judgments rendered by a court of general jurisdiction of the State of North Carolina, and the recovery by the plaintiff, in each case, is assailed upon the ground that error was committed in the reception of evidence bearing upon the question of the foreign court’s acquirement of jurisdiction of the defendant’s person, and that .the judgments in suit could not be made the basis of a recovery, the contention being that they did not disclose, upon their face, that jurisdiction had been acquired.
Upon the merits of the case, leaving for a moment the sufficiency of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- St. Clair v. CoxSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Pringle v. . WoolworthNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
- Noyes v. ButlerNew York Supreme Court · 1849
- Woodward v. . Mutual Reserve Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1904
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