Baskin v. Montedonico

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The controlling question in the appeal is whether the court below, sitting in Tennessee, erred in declining to give full faith and credit to a judgment for the appellant by a Florida court on the ground of its lack of jurisdiction, thus failing to follow the mandate of Article IV, § 1, of the Constitution of the United States. There is no controversy on the facts as found in a trial to the court without a jury, and the question is one of law.

By the will of James A. Winkelman, a resident of Florida, the appellee was appointed a coexecutor and trustee of all of Winkelman’s…