Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. v. Staats

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[w]here a foreign court has jurisdiction over the subject matter and the parties in a dispute, a judgment of that court is entitled to [full faith and credit] unless that judgment has been obtained in derogation of the debtor’s due process rights to appear and defend”
• holding the appellants failed to aver sufficient facts to establish that the equities required imposition of a stay where, inter alia, one of their bases for the stay “could have been raised in the original action” but was not
• reviewing decision to deny stay where only execution upon judgment remained pending
• “When a judgment by default becomes final, all general rules in regard to conclusiveness of judgments apply.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).