Parker v. Hoefer

In this appeal by our permission, we consider whether New York must give full faith and credit to a foreign judgment, notwithstanding that the underlying claim would not be enforcible in the State.

The plaintiff, a resident of Vermont, has a final judgment against the defendant, a resident of New York, in an action for alienation of her husband’s affections and for criminal conversation. When such judgment could not be collected in Vermont, she commenced this action to enforce it in New York. The defendant, by her answer, interposed a defense based upon all the provisions of article 2-A of the…