Roller v. Murray

Citations

• 234 U.S. 738
• 34 S. Ct. 902
• 58 L. Ed. 1570
• 1914 U.S. LEXIS 1123

Syllabus

<p>A mere error of law not involving a Federal question and committed in the exercise of jurisdiction by giving conclusive effect to a judgment rendered in another State affords no opportunity for a review in this court.</p> <p>If the court rendering the judgment had jurisdiction of the subject-matter and the parties, the merits of the controversy are not open for reinvestigation in the courts of another State; but, under the full faith and credit clause of the Federal Constitution and § 905, Rev. . Stat., the latter must give the judgment such credit as it has in the State where it was rendered.</p> <p>The proper method of obtaining a review of the Federal question adversely decided by the state court is by writ of error to this court under § 237, Judicial Code, and not by collaterally attacking the judgment on the ground that it denies due process of law when it is invoked in the courts of another State.</p> <p>Where the effect of the judgment of another State dissolving an injunction as res judicata is denied on the ground that it is not a final decree, if the contention that a final decree was subsequently rendered which concluded the merits was not presented to the court, there is no basis for review in this court under § 237, Judicial Code on the ground that full faith and credit was not given to the original judgment.</p>