· 5/24/1991
Pan Energy v. Martin
Citations
- 813 P.2d 1142
- 161 Utah Adv. Rep. 28
- 1991 Utah LEXIS 45
- 1991 WL 91014
How courts have described this case
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- applying Utah’s statute of limitations to an action to enforce a foreign judgment, stating that full faith and credit is not denied by applying local procedural law
- construing a similar provision to mean that “foreign judgments properly filed in Utah essentially become Utah judgments”
- “[A]t least for purposes of enforcement, the filing of a foreign judgment . . . creates a new Utah judgment which is governed by the Utah statute of limitations[.]”
- “[T]he Legislature has removed this issue from the realm of comity and judicial discretion by directing that foreign judgments shall be treated the same as local judgments once they have been filed in this state.”
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Judges: Stewart, Hall, Howe, Durham, Zimmerman
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