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Supreme Court· 12/14/1885

Hanley v. Donoghue

Citations

  • 116 U.S. 1
  • 6 S. Ct. 242
  • 29 L. Ed. 535
  • 1885 U.S. LEXIS 1882

Syllabus

<p>Under art. 4, seo. 1, of the Constitution, and § 905 of the Revised Statutes, a judgment recovered in one State against two joint defendants, one of whom, has been duly summoned and the other has not, and which is valid and enforceable by the law of that State against the former alone, will support-an action against him in another State.</p> <p>This court, upon writ of error to the highest court of a State, does not take judicial notice of the law of another State, not proved in that court and made part of the record serit up, unless by the local law that court takes judicial notice of it.</p> <p>In an action brought in one State upon a judgment recovered against the defendant jointly with another person imánother State, an averment that'the judgment, by the law of the State in which it was rendered, is valid and enforceable against this defendant and void against the other person is an allegation of fact, which is admitted by demurrer.</p>

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  • law is known to the Court as law alone, needing no averment or proof
  • Congress, in enacting 11 U.S.C. § 362(a
  • “‘Congress, in enacting 11 U.S.C. § 362(a
  • “‘Congress, in enacting 11 U.S.C. § 362(a

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Judges: Gray

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