Ufford v. Spaulding

The plaintiff’s title was under a mortgage of personal property, being a stock of millinery goods, given in New Hampshire by a resident of that State upon property then situated there. The validity of the mortgage therefore depends on the law of New Hampshire. The mortgage was not recorded, and no possession was taken under it for several months.

It is a general rule, that laws of other States must be proved as facts, and ordinarily, in a trial by jury, the question must be left to the jury to decide as a fact what the law of another State is, if it becomes material to be determined. This may…