Burt v. Delano
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
The case was submitted on an agreed statement of facts as follows: This is an action of contract upon a judgment rendered by the ¿¡strict court for the second judicial district of the state of California, in and for the county of Tehama, in favor of the plaintiffs [H. H. Burt and Tipton], who are citizens of the state of California, against John G. Wright, Lester Goodwin, and James Delano, copart-ners under the firm name of Wright, Goodwin, & Delano, and having their usual…
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The case was submitted on an agreed statement of facts as follows: This is an action of contract upon a judgment rendered by the ¿¡strict court for the second judicial district of the state of California, in and for the county of Tehama, in favor of the plaintiffs [H. H. Burt and Tipton], who are citizens of the state of California, against John G. Wright, Lester Goodwin, and James Delano, copart-ners under the firm name of Wright, Goodwin, & Delano, and having their usual place of business in Boston, within the district of Massachusetts, and who, at the time said action was brought, were…
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Circuit Justice.
Subject to the qualification that judgments are open to inquiry as to the jurisdiction of the court where they were given, and as to notice to the defendant, the judgment of a state court. not reversed by a superior court, nor set aside by a direct proceeding in chancery, is conclusive in the courts of all the other states where the subject-matter in controversy is the same. Christmas v. Russell, 5 Wall. [72 U. S.] 291; Mills v. Duryee, 7 Cranch [11 U. S.] 483; 2 Story, Const. (3d Ed.) 1313; Bissell v. Briggs, 9 Mass. 462. Judgment was rendered in a state court of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Pennoyer v. NeffSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Bissell v. BriggsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1813
- Stockwell v. McCrackenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
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