153 A. 322 | N.H. | 1931
The record shows that the plaintiff had previously sued the same cause of action in the supreme judicial court of the state of Maine, that a trial by jury was had, that upon direction of the presiding justice the jury returned a verdict for the defendant and that judgment was entered upon the verdict. This judgment was pleaded in bar of the present action. The ruling that the plea stated a good defence was correct. Const. of U.S., Art. IV, s. 1.
Whatever error there may have been in the ruling of the justice presiding at the trial in the Maine suit was correctible only in the Maine courts. The ruling having been submitted to and a final judgment having been entered in accordance therewith, the whole subject is foreclosed in the courts of any other state. The historic case, Kittredge v. Emerson,
The plaintiff's claim that the Maine judgment was entered without jurisdiction and therefore is not conclusive here (South Bay Company v. Merrill,
There is no suggestion that the Maine judgment is not a complete bar to any further action in that state. It is equally effective here. "Thus and thus only can the full faith and credit prescribed by the Constitution of the United States and the act of Congress be secured." Hancock National Bank v. Farnum,
Exception overruled.
SNOW, J., did not sit: the others concurred. *501