Rigney v. . Rigney
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of tlie General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made July 9, 1889, which reversed a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and granted a new trial.
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Appeal from order of tlie General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made July 9, 1889, which reversed a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and granted a new trial. This action was brought to enforce, as to alimony and costs, a decree of the Court of Chancery of ¡New Jersey, dissolving the previously existing marriage relation between the plaintiff and defendant, and awarding costs, counsel fees and alimony to the plaintiff. February 12, 1873, the parties inter-married at Poughkeepsie, New York, and continued…
1Opinion of the Court
Follett, Ch. J.
The courts of this state are commanded by the Constitution and statutes of the United States to give such faith and credit to the judgment of the Court of Chancery of Eew Jersey as the judgment has, bylaw or usage, in the courts of that state. (Canst. U. S. art. 4, § 1; U. S. E. S. § 905.) The jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery to render the judgment against this defendant for costs and alimony may be inquired into by the courts of this state, and whether it had or not is the only question presented by the record.
A suit for a divorce, though not strictly a proceeding in rem…
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