Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. The facts, which involve the question of whether the Massachusetts courts gave to a New York judgment pleaded as a bar in a Massachusetts suit the full faith and credit which is required by § 1 of Art. IV of the. Constitution of the United States and § 905, Revised Statutes, are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. The facts, which involve the question of whether the Massachusetts courts gave to a New York judgment pleaded as a bar in a Massachusetts suit the full faith and credit which is required by § 1 of Art. IV of the. Constitution of the United States and § 905, Revised Statutes, are stated in the opinion. The decrees of the Massachusetts court involve a denial of full faith and credit to the Lewisohn decree in the New York case. • The judgment of a Fedejal court sitting in New York is entitled in another State to the same faith…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lurton
The question upon which these cases have been brought to this, court is whether the Massachusetts court gave to a New York judgment pleaded as a bar to a Massachusetts suit that full faith and credit required by the first section of Art. IY of the Constitution of the United States, and § 905, Revised Statutes, enacted in pursuance thereof.
The Old Dominion Copper, and Smelting Company, hereafter designated the Copper. Company, a corporation of New Jersey, filed two bills in an equity court of Massachusetts against the plaintiff in error, Albert S. Bigelow, to recover secret profits realized by…
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