Midessa Television Co., Inc. v. Motion Pictures for Television, Inc.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment granting the appellee — plaintiff below — judgment against the defendant below, and dismissing defendant’s counterclaim. The suit was brought to enforce a judgment of a state court, The Supreme Court of New York, enforcing and amending an award of arbitrators, conducted under New York law, under the provisions of a written agreement between plaintiff and defendant.

Recognizing the general rule, that, in a suit on a judgment of a court of one of the states, full faith and credit requires the enforcement of the judgment unless it…