Davis v. Mills
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE* FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This case came here on a certificate of which the following is the material portion: “The plaintiff is a citizen of Montana and-the owner by assignment of three causes of action (for goods sold and on a promissory note) against the Obelisk Mining and Concentrating Company, a Montana corporation.
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CERTIFICATE* FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This case came here on a certificate of which the following is the material portion: “The plaintiff is a citizen of Montana and-the owner by assignment of three causes of action (for goods sold and on a promissory note) against the Obelisk Mining and Concentrating Company, a Montana corporation. The indebtedness of the company upon these causes .of action accrued July 31, 1892, July 1, 1892, and December 12, 1892, respectively. The defendants are and always have been citizens and residents of Connecticut, and at all the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.. Justice Holmes,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the; opinion of the court.
The- general theory on which an action is maintained upon a cause which accrued in another jurisdiction is that the liability is an obligatio, which, having been attached to the person by the law then having that person within its power, will be treated by other countries as accompanying the person when brought before'their courts. But, as the source of the obligation is the foreign law, the defendant, generally speaking, is entitled to the benefit of whatever conditions and limitations the foreign…
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