Thomson v. County of Lee
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, the Lee District Court. Judgments, foreign and Domestic, conolusiveness of, etc. — The District Court sustained a demurrer to the answer, from which defendant appeals. The further necessary facts will be found stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from, the Lee District Court. Judgments, foreign and Domestic, conolusiveness of, etc. — The District Court sustained a demurrer to the answer, from which defendant appeals. The further necessary facts will be found stated in the opinion. First, that the federal Circuit Courts, not being embraced within the acts of Congress of 1790 and 1814, nor included in article four, section one, of the federal Constitution, were, with reference to the State courts, to be regarded as foreign and not domestic tribunals. Citing Dorsey v. Maury, 10 Smedes and Marshall (Miss). Second, that a foreign…
1Opinion of the CourtDillon, J.
1. Judgment: of federal circuit courts, not foreign. I. This action is brought upon the record of a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and against the defendant, rendered by the Circuit Court of United States for the northern district of Illinois.
The action in which said judgment was so rendered by the federal Circuit Court of Illinois, was originally commenced in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Iowa; but, as both of the judges of the last mentioned court were pecuniarily interested in the result of the suit, it was by them ordered, that the cause be transferred to…
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