Trowbridge v. Spinning

Citations

• 23 Wash. 48
• 54 L.R.A. 204
• 62 P. 125
• 1900 Wash. LEXIS 341

Syllabus

<p>ACTION ON FOREIGN JUDGMENT-JURISDICTION OE COURT RENDERING JUDGMENT-JUDICIAL NOTICE.</p> <p>Where an action is brought in this state upon a judgment for alimony rendered in another state, the courts of this state will take judicial notice of the local laws of such state, and that they confer jurisdiction upon the court from which the record comes to render the judgment sued upon.</p> <p>SAME — JURISDICTIONAL FACTS — PLEADING.</p> <p>In an action upon a judgment of another state, rendered by a court of general jurisdiction, it is unnecessary to allege jurisdictional facts, since any want of jurisdicition affecting the validity of the judgment is a matter to be set up by answer.</p> <p>•UJDGMENTS — AWARD OF ALIMONY IN GROSS — FINALITY OF DECREE.</p> <p>A judgment in divorce proceedings awarding alimony in gross, which, by statute, is made a general lien on the realty of the judgment debtor, as in the ease of other judgments, constitutes a final judgment of that state, although the court rendering it may, on the application of either party, make such alteration from time to time as to the' allowance of alimony as may be proper, to which the courts of other states are required, by the constitution of the United States and the act of congress pursuant thereto, to give full faith and credit.</p> <p>GARNISHMENT-GARNISHEE’S CONTROL OF PROPERTY-SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES.</p> <p>A corporation which conducts a safe deposit vault business by renting to individuals boxes in the vault which can only be opened by the use of two keys — one a master’s key, in the possession of the corporation and the other a private key, in the possession of the renter of the box — is subject to garnishment in an action against the latter, under Bal. Code, § 5404, which provides that “should it appear from the garnishee’s answer or otherwise that the garnishee has in his possession or under his control, or had when the writ was served, any personal property or effects of the defendant liable to executio