Interamerican Lambs Wool Products, Ltd. v. Doxsee Food Corp.

OPINION

JORDAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a default judgment rendered by a Texas trial court giving full faith and credit to a default judgment for $123,540.76 rendered by The Supreme Court (trial court) of New York on June 9, 1981. The Texas default judgment from which this appeal is taken was rendered on August 27, 1981.

We reverse and remand.

No record was made of the hearing on the Texas default judgment, and the court rendered the judgment based on the pleadings and certified copies of the New York judgment and two other certifications, one by a New York Supreme Justice and one by the…