Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Pennsylvania

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “the holder of ... property is deprived of due process of law if he is compelled to relinquish it without assurance' that he will not be held liable again in another jurisdiction”
• recognizing that an escheat operates in rem
• finding, in the context of claims by both Pennsylvania and New York to the same property, that double liability would violate due process
• denial of due process unless the court before whom party is appearing can protect the defendant from claims in other courts
• \[A] state court judgment need not be given full faith and credit . . . as to parties or property not subject to the jurisdiction of the court that rendered it.\
• state is without power to provide a rule to settle an interstate escheat controversy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).