Conquistador Hotel Corp. v. Fortino

This case raises the question of whether the state of Wisconsin should accord full faith and credit to a foreign judgment rendered in a commonwealth of the United States enforcing a gambling debt. The trial court ordered that the plaintiff be allowed to enforce the judgment in the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, and we affirm.

Defendant spent three or four days at the Conquistador Hotel in Puerto Rico, and gambled at the hotel using the “marker system.” He wrote a personal check to cover the markers, but stopped payment on the check after he returned home.

Plaintiff commenced an action against…