Cappaert Manufactured Housing, Inc. v. Thronson

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Mississippi will only deny full faith and credit to a foreign judgment where the originating court lacked jurisdiction or the judgment was obtained through extrinsic fraud. Here, Cappaert Manufactured Housing, Inc., asks that we not enforce a judgment obtained against it in Louisiana. It bases its request on assertions of “extrinsic fraud” concerning what it deems “ill practices” by members of Louisiana’s judiciary in appointing a biased trial judge. *102But Cappaert presents nothing extrinsic to the Louisiana proceedings as evidence of fraud. Instead, it solely…