Gruenewald v. Waara

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• holding foreign judgment can be collaterally attacked by evidence that rendering court was without jurisdiction
• sister state’s judgment has same validity and effect in this state as in state rendered
• Texas default judgment was void and not entitled to registration in Nebraska because defendant was not properly served in Texas, and the Texas court did not have jurisdiction over defendant
• where applicable law of sister state is not presented to Nebraska court, it is presumed to be same as law of Nebraska
• where applicable law of sister state is not presented to Nebraska court, it is presumed to be same as law of Nebraska
• Texas default judgment was void and not entitled to registration in Nebraska because defendant was not properly served in Texas, and the Texas court did not have jurisdiction over defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).