Robert Bugielski v. At&t Services, Inc.

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that one state cannot directly decide title to land located in another state
• stating that in personam decree enables court with personal and subject matter jurisdiction to issue order affecting extraterritorial property
• holding that a court of equity can order a person over which it has jurisdiction to convey title to real property located in another state, but the court cannot itself transfer title because it does not have jurisdiction over such real property
• establishing that court in one state cannot determine title to property in another state “by its decree, nor by a deed made by a master in accordance with the decree” but may indirectly affect title by ordering party to take action with respect to property
• commissioner's deed executed in compliance with divorce decree awarding interest in out-of-state land held void as a muniment of title
• which held that, for this reason, Nebraska courts were not required to give full faith and credit to a Washington order that decreed the conveyance of Nebraska land, 215 U.S. at 8-12, 30 S.Ct. at 6-8

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