Legal Opinion

Northwestern Brewers Supply Co. v. Vorhees

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided June 9, 1947No. 40249PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, P. J.

In January, 1946 plaintiff filed this suit on a Wisconsin judgment rendered on October 31, 1932. Defendant pleaded the Missouri Statute barring suits on judgments after ten years. Plaintiff, in a motion for judgment on the pleadings, alleged that the statute of limitations in Wisconsin, where the judgment was obtained, ran for a period of twenty years, and therefore under the Constitution of the United States the Wisconsin judgment was entitled to full faith and credit for such term, and the Missouri ten-year statute could not be applied. Defendánt also filed a motion for judgment on the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Williams v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  2. McElmoyle Ex Rel. Bailey v. CohenSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
  3. Morris v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  4. Roche v. McDonaldSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
  5. Titus v. WallickSupreme Court of the United States · 1939

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Union National Bank v. LambSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  2. Light v. LightIllinois Supreme Court · 1957
  3. Middleton v. LockhartSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2003
  4. Kennedy v. BodenMissouri Court of Appeals · 1950
  5. Wormington v. City of MonettSupreme Court of Missouri · 1949

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