Betts v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Vermont
Debt on judgment. Heard upon general demurrer to the declaration at the September term, 1895, Rutland county, Ross, C. J., presiding. Demurrer sustained and judgment, for the defendant. The plaintiff excepts.
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Debt on judgment. Heard upon general demurrer to the declaration at the September term, 1895, Rutland county, Ross, C. J., presiding. Demurrer sustained and judgment, for the defendant. The plaintiff excepts. The plaintiff declared upon a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Bradford in the state of Pennsylvania, entered January 15, 1895. The record showed that this judgment was rendered upon scire facias proceedings to revive a judgment obtained at the September term of said court, 1881, that no service was made upon the defendant, but that the proth.onotary was directed…
1Opinion of the Court
TAFT. J.
A provision of the U. S. Constitution, (Art. IV., s. 1) declares that “Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.” It is the duty of the courts of this .•state to give full force and effect to such provision. It has been held by the Supreme Court of the United States, the final arbiter of such questions, Grover v. Radcliffe, 137 U. S. 287,
“That the jurisdiction of a foreign court over the person or subject-matter, enforced in the judgment or decree of such court, is always open to inquiry; that in this…
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