2 Bradf. 103 | N.Y. Sur. Ct. | 1852
The deceased, at the time of his death, was indebted to the petitioners, Brown & Dimock, upon a judgment for $405,08, recovered against him in the County Court of Craven County, in the State of North Carolina; and application is now made for an order for the payment of the judgment, as a debt entitled to preference under the statute directing judgments docketed, and decrees enrolled against the deceased, to be paid according to their respective priorities, beforer ecognizances, bonds, sealed instruments, notes, bills, and unliquidated demands and accounts. (2 R. S., 3d ed., p. 151, § 29.) The provision of the Constitution of the United States, that “ full faith and credit shall be given, in each State, to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings, of every other State,” .and that Congress may “ prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings, shall be proved, and