Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad v. Whitley
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP IDAHO. The facts, which involve the right of enforcement in one State of a liability created under the statute of another State and the extent to which a judgment recovered by an administratrix may affect a claim by an heir of the intestate, are. stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
Mary Elizabeth Whitley, the defendant in error, recovered judgment in the District Court for the County of Kootenai. Idaho, for the sum of $5,500 as damages for the death of her son, A. P. Whitley, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the Railroad Company, the plaintiff in error.' The Supreme Court of the State affirmed the judgment (23 Idaho, 642), and this writ of error is prosecuted. It is assigned as error that the court failed to give due faith and credit, as required by the •Federal Constitution, to a judgment recovered in the State. of Washington by Josephine Whitley, as…
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