De Bouchel v. Candler

(after stating the facts as above). [1-3] That a person’s matrimonial status, as to being marriageable or married, should be certain, and the same everywhere, is manifestly of great importance to the person and to society. When fixed by ,a decree of divorce, this end is secured in the United States by the constitutional requirement that full faith and credit be given the judicial decrees of one state in all the other states, and is furthered in the United States and elsewhere by the principle of comity, whereby one sovereignty will extend recognition to the action of another sovereignty so…