delivered the opinion of the court.
Until thе supreme court of the United States shall exрressly so. declare we will not hold that a contract condemned by our civil and criminal laws as immoral, and which the courts of this state are prohibited from enforcing, is sanctified and purged оf its legality by a judgment rendered in another state against a citizen of this state, sued and served with process on being found temporarily in the jurisdiction of the court, so that in a suit here on such judgment the illеgal character of the cause of action may not be inquired into. There are decisions of the supreme court which seem to hold that it is not allowable to go behind the judgment for the purpose of examining into the validity of the claim, but we are unwilling to believe that it will ever be hеld that a court is precluded by the constitution of the United States from ascertaining whether the claim on which a judgment is rendered in another state is such an one as the courts of the state in whiсh suit on the judgment is brought, on grounds of public policy, are expressly prohibited from enforcing. If this be lаw, all that is necessary to free the most corrupt transaction from all objection is to obtain service on a party and get judgment in anоther state, and then come into a court of this state and obtain judgment, by virtue of art. 4, sec. 1, cоnstitution of the United States and the act of
Reversed and remanded.