Ray v. Pilot Fire Insurance

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Watts.

This is an appeal from a directed verdict in favor of the respondent by his Honor, Judge Mauldin, for the sum of $1,200. The exceptions, four in number, raise the simple question:

“Did the presiding Judge err in denying full faith and credit to the judgment obtained in the Court of North Carolina on the sole ground that the filing of the complaint on the 29th day of March, 1922, was such a jurisdictional defect as rendered said judgment void?”

Both the plaintiff and defendant in that action lived ‘in Union, S. C. The cause of action on…