Legal Opinion · Concurrence
Wilmer L. Lyle v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 31, 1956No. 5087_1Published
1ConcurrenceMagruder, Chief Judge
(concurring) .
I concur. This case seems to me to present a very interesting question.
There are two distinct, though not unrelated, doctrines: (1) The obliga*686tion to give “full faith and credit” to the judicial proceedings of a state court, and in particular to the judgment of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine in Lyle v. Bangor & Aroostook R. R. Co., 1954, 150 Me. 327, 110 A.2d 584, and (2) the principles of res judicata. The obligation to give such full faith and credit is imposed upon the several states by constitutional mandate in Article IY, Section 1, of the Federal Constitution. A…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Garrett v. Moore-Mccormack Co., Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Moore-Mccormack Lines, Inc. v. AmiraultCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1953
- Marshall v. NugentCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1955
- Linton v. Perry Knitting Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1945
- Lyle v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1954