Hanley v. Donoghue
Supreme Court of the United States
EBBOR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND. This was an action brought by Michael Hanley and William E. Welch against Charles Donoghue in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, in the State of Maryland, upon a judgment for $2000, recovered by the plaintiffs on June 4, 1877, in an action of covenant against the defendant, Charles Donoghue, together with one John Donoghue, in the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County in the State of Pennsylvania, and there…
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EBBOR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND. This was an action brought by Michael Hanley and William E. Welch against Charles Donoghue in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, in the State of Maryland, upon a judgment for $2000, recovered by the plaintiffs on June 4, 1877, in an action of covenant against the defendant, Charles Donoghue, together with one John Donoghue, in the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County in the State of Pennsylvania, and there recorded. The declaration contained three counts. The first count set forth the recovery and record of the judgment as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
After stating the facts in the language reported above, he continued:
The question presented by this writ of error is whether the judgment of the Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland has denied to the plaintiffs a right and privilege to which they are entitled under the first section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States, which declares that “full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State; and the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and…
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