Pennywit v. Foote
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Superior Court of Cincinnati. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs against John T. Eoote, impleaded, with Sheldon Kellogg, late partners, to recover on a judgment rendered against said Kellogg and Eoote, in the Circuit Court of Crawford county, in the State of Arkansas, on the 16th of November, 1861. The petition contains an averment that said court was a court of record and general jurisdiction ; that the action was commenced in that court in October,…
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Error to the Superior Court of Cincinnati. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs against John T. Eoote, impleaded, with Sheldon Kellogg, late partners, to recover on a judgment rendered against said Kellogg and Eoote, in the Circuit Court of Crawford county, in the State of Arkansas, on the 16th of November, 1861. The petition contains an averment that said court was a court of record and general jurisdiction ; that the action was commenced in that court in October, 1857, and that at the July term of said court, in 1859, the defendants duly appeared by their attorney and filed their…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, J.
The facts disclosed present for our consideration important and novel questions growing out of the late civil war. They involve a determination of the legal *613effect of the secession of the State of Arkansas, and the war that ensued, upon the power of the courts of that state, during the war,to render judgment against a citizen of Ohio, and also the extent to which faith and credit should be given to a judgment thus rendered, under the constitution and laws of the United States.
On behalf of the plaintiff', it is claimed that full faith and credit should be given to this judgment, under article…
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