Chicago Life Insurance v. Cherry
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE APPELLATE COURT FOR THE FIRST DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. The case is stated in the opinion. The decisions of the Tennessee courts to the effect that they had jurisdiction over plaintiffs in error do not preclude the courts of Illinois from examining the record facts in the Tennessee courts to determine the question of jurisdiction.
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ERROR TO THE APPELLATE COURT FOR THE FIRST DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. The case is stated in the opinion. The decisions of the Tennessee courts to the effect that they had jurisdiction over plaintiffs in error do not preclude the courts of Illinois from examining the record facts in the Tennessee courts to determine the question of jurisdiction. D’Arcy v. Ketchum, 11 How. 165; Harkness v. Hyde, 98 U. S. 476; Haddock v. Haddock, 201 U. S. 572; Thompson v. Whitman, 18 Wall. 457; Sheldon v. Wabash Ry. Co., 105 Fed. Rep. 785; Gilman v. Gilman, 126 Massachusetts, 26; and other cases. A…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a suit in Illinois upon a judgment recovered in Tennessee against the insurance companies, plaintiffs in error. They pleaded and set up at the trial that there never was a valid service upon them in Tennessee and that the judgment was void.. The defendant in error (the plaintiff) showed in reply, without dispute, that the defence was urged in Tennessee by pleas in abatement, that, upon demurrer to one plea and upon issue joined on the other, the decision was for the plaintiff, and that the judgment was affirmed by the higher courts. The plaintiff had judgment at the trial in Illinois,…
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