Cox v. Pow

In my view, the cases cited by the majority do not reach the issue before us because they involved a decree from a sister state.

The foreign judgment, upon which the appellee relies to establish appellant’s duty to support her child, is penal. The judgment found that appellant was the father *32of the child, sentenced him to two years in the workhouse, and ordered that he pay her forty Dominican dollars per month. The principle of comity should not be invoked to give effect to judgments of this nature because they are entered by the foreign country while exercising its police regulations. See In…