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· 9/21/1953

McDade v. Moynihan

Citations

  • 115 N.E.2d 372
  • 330 Mass. 437
  • 39 A.L.R. 2d 1223
  • 1953 Mass. LEXIS 491

How courts have described this case

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  • “The Constitution of the United States can not be trimmed to suit the differing views of policy entertained in differing states.”
  • Pennsylvaniajudgment by confession entitled to full faith and credit despite G.Lc. 231, §13A which renders void all judgments by confession in Massachusetts
  • full faith and credit clause required court to enforce Pennsylvania judgment based on a confession of judgment even though Massachusetts law declared such provisions for confession of judgment void
  • each breach of contract gives rise to a separate cause of action
  • “[The statute] does not empower the courts of this Commonwealth, because of our policy, to refuse full faith and credit according to the Constitution of the United States to the judgments of other States which are valid under the laws of those States.”

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Judges: Qua, Lummus, Wilkins, Williams, Counihan

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