Kinseley v. . Rumbough
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, tried before Shipp, Judge, at Spring Term, 1886, of MadisoN Superior Court. The cause of action alleged in the complaint, is a judgment of the Circuit Court of the county of Knox, in the State of Tennessee.
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Civil ACTION, tried before Shipp, Judge, at Spring Term, 1886, of MadisoN Superior Court. The cause of action alleged in the complaint, is a judgment of the Circuit Court of the county of Knox, in the State of Tennessee. The defendant having in effect pleaded nut tiel record, on the trial, the plaintiff put in evidence the transcript of the record of a judgment of that Court, authenticated in manner and form following: “State oe TeNNessee — Knox Gounty: I, E. W. Adkins, Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true…
1Opinion of the Court
Merrimon, J.,
(after stating tlie facts). The Constitution of the United States, Art. IV., §1, provides that, “fullfaith 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 ¡Droceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.”
In the exercise of the power thus conferred, Congress, at an early period of the government, enacted the statute, (Rev. Stats. U. S., §905; The Code of N. C., vol. II., pp. 732-3), which among other things provides,…
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