Fowler v. Fowler

While the parties conceded before the Trial Court that “the law of the state of New York governs these proceedings,” the defendant now asserts that the plaintiff’s case fails for lack of proof of the New York law, since no evidence was introduced with respect to it in the court below. The procedure by which foreign law is to be judicially determined in this jurisdiction was considered in Saloshin v. Houle, 85 N. EL 126, and the principle laid down that in construing foreign law proved in the Trial Court, the appellate court may take judicial notice of that law as contained in “works of…