Motz v. Alropa Corporation

Jenkins, Justice.

The rights of the parties to a contract made and to be performed in another State are controlled not only by its pertinent statutes but by the decisions of its appellate courts construing and applying those statutes. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Yates, 299 U. S. 178, 181, 182 (57 Sup. Ct. 129, 81 L. ed. 106); Burns Mortgage Co. v. Fried, 292 U. S. 487 (54 Sup. Ct. 813, 78 L. ed. 1380, 92 A. L. R. 1193); Trustees of Williams Hospital v. Nisbet, 189 Ga. 807 (b), 811 (7 S. E. 2d, 737); U. S. Constitution, art. 4, § 1 (Code, § 1-401). But where only some rule of the…