Sister-state judgments distinguished from foreign
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From 225 U.S. 111 - Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. · 1912Most cited · 721 citing opinions
Judgments recovered in one state of the Union, when proved in the courts of another, differ from the judgments recovered in a foreign country in no other respect than that of not being re-examinable upon the merits, nor impeachable for fraud in obtaining them, if rendered by a court having jurisdiction of the cause and of the parties.