Green v. Van Buskirk
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the case being thus •, The Constitution of the United States 'declares that “"fitll faith and credit” shall be given in each State to the judicial proceedings of every other State, and that Congress may prescribe the manner- in which such proceedings shall be proved and the effect thereof.
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Error to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the case being thus •, The Constitution of the United States 'declares that “"fitll faith and credit” shall be given in each State to the judicial proceedings of every other State, and that Congress may prescribe the manner- in which such proceedings shall be proved and the effect thereof. Congress, by act of 1790, did accordingly provide that they should “have such faith and credit given to them in every other court of the United States as -they have by law or usage in the court from which they are taken.” With these provisions in force,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.' Justice DAVIS
delivered the opinion of the court. ■
That the controversy in this case was substantially ended when this court refused * to dismiss the writ of error for want of jurisdiction, is quite manifest by the effort which the learned counsel for the defendants in error now make, to escape the force of that decision.
The question raised on the motion to dismiss was, whether the Supreme Court of New York, in this case, had decided against a right which Green claimed under the Constitution^ and an act of Congress. If it had, then this court had jurisdictiou to entertain the writ of…
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