Freeman v. Kolarek

A defendant may be arrested in a civil ■action here for fraudulent representations made in the purchase of property in a foreign state or country, even in a case where the .defendant could not have been arrested for such acts in that state or country; and the converse of this last proposition is true; that if a fraudulent debtor flees to and is prosecuted in a state where the right to arrest for the wrong in a civil action does not exist, the fact that he might have been arrested civilly in the forum where the fraud was committed does not confer upon the courts of the state into which he…