OPINION
Trustmark National Bank (“Trust-mark”) obtained a judgment of replevin in Mississippi for a truck in the possession of Alvis Miller (“Appellant”). Prior to the Mississippi hearing, Trustmark properly served Appellant with notice, and Appellant filed а hand-written statement informing the court that he had a possessory lien on the truck for repairs made by Appellant. Despite this, the Mississippi court held that Trustmark’s lien had priority over Appellant’s possessory lien. When Trustmark sought to enroll the Mississippi judgment in Tennessee, Apрellant argued that Tennessee courts should not extend full faith and credit to the Mississippi judgment because under Tennessee law, common law possessory liens have priority over prior recorded interests. The trial court enrolled the judgment and Appellant aрpealed. We affirm.
Factual Background and Procedural History
Appellant Alvis Miller (“Appellant”) owned and operated a business in Collier-ville, Tennessee, by the name of “The Auto Center.” The Auto Center engaged in auto sales and repairs. Appellant’s brother, Robert Miller, owned a 1989 Freight-liner dump truck financed by Appellee Trustmark Bank (“Trustmark”), which is located in Southaven, Mississippi. In March 2004, Appellant took possession of the dump truck for the purpose of replacing the diesel engine and clutch. Repair costs amounted to $6,800.00 with additional storage costs of $810.00 fоr a total invoice of $7,610.00. Appellant subsequently failed to receive payment for the repairs and, as a result, asserted a common law hen of possession against the track. Due to this lien, Appellant retained possession of the track and has continually retained possession of the said track throughout the course of this litigation.
Trustmark secured a judgment of re-plevin for the dump truck on July 28, 2004, in the County Court of DeSoto County, Mississippi. Although Appellant did not personally appear before the DeSoto County Court, he wаs properly served with notice and he did file a handwritten response in which he described his hen of possession. After securing the judgment of replevin, Trustmark filed a petition to enroll the judgment in Tennessee. In response, Appellant filed a Motion for Summary Judgment arguing that Trastmark’s foreign replevin judgment failed to take priority over Appellant’s common law hen of possession. Trustmark also filed a Motion for Summary Judgment arguing that Appellant’s priority claim was barred under the doctrine of res judicata, and further arguing that Appellant’s possessory hen was not superior to Trustmark’s judgment of replevin.
On March 11, 2005, the trial court issued an order denying Appellant’s motion for summary judgment. In this order, the Chancellor also made the following findings:
1. Defendant Aivis Miller was duly served with process and attempted to file a response in the related mater filed and heard by the County Court of DeSo-to County, Mississippi.
*56 2. Defendant Miller was afforded the opportunity to raise any and all objections and defenses he may have had in the matter.
3. The issues Defendant Miller seeks to raise are barred by the doctrine of res judicata.
Subsequently, on April 29, 2005, the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of Trustmark and enrolled Trustmark’s Mississippi judgment of replevin. Appellant appeals.
Issues Presented
We interpret the issues in this case to be 1) whether, under Tennessee Law, Appellant’s possessory lien is superior to Trust-mark’s Mississipрi judgment, and 2) whether the trial court erred in enrolling Trustmark’s Mississippi judgment in Tennessee. For the reasons stated herein, we affirm.
Standard of Review
Summary judgment is only appropriate where the moving party shows that there are no disputed issues of material fact and that, based upon those facts, the party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.
Byrd v. Hall,
Analysis
The full faith and credit clause in the United States Constitution provides that
[fjull faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
U.S. Cоst. art. IV, § 1. The United States Supreme Court expounded on the effect of the full faith and credit clause in
Hampton v. M’Connel,
the judgment of a state court should have the same credit, validity, and effect, in every other court in the United States, which it had in the state where it was pronounced, and that whatever pleas would be good to a suit thereon in such state, and none others, could be [pleaded] in any other court in the United States.
Hampton,
As explained by this Court in
Mirage Casino Hotel v. Pearsall,
No. 02A01-9608-CV-00198,
well established that the full faith and credit cause of the federal constitution requires that the judgment of a state court, which hаd jurisdiction of the parties and the subject matter in the suit, be given the same credit, validity and effect in the courts of every other state and that such judgment be equally con- *57 elusive upon the merits in the courts of the enforcing states....
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Thus, where an action is brought on a judgment rendеred by a court of a sister state, the full faith and credit cause of the federal constitution prohibits an inquiry into the merits of the original cause of action. In an action on a foreign judgment, the forum court may inquire only into questions which would be considered on collateral attack in the state where the judgment was rendered. ... Therefore, even though a cause of action could not be entertained in the forum state ... because the particular action was not recognized in the courts of the forum state, the judgment thereоn obtained in a sister state is entitled to full faith and credit.
Id. at *3-4 (citations omitted) (emphasis added).
Despite the foregoing, “the United States Supreme Court has recognized at least three exceptions to the full faith and credit clause.”
Id.
at *4. Specifically, states may refuse to apply full faith and credit to judgments that are 1) void due to a lack of personal or subject matter jurisdiction, 2) based upon fraud, or 3) “where enforcement of the judgment would violate the public policy of the forum state.”
Id.
(citations omitted). Tennessee courts have also recognized аnd adopted these exceptions.
See Four Seasons Gardening & Landscaping, Inc. v. Crouch,
In the case at bar, Appellant first argues that this Court should find that Appellant’s common law lien of possession is superior to Trustmark’s prior security interest. Specifically, Appellant asserts that, under Tennessee law, commоn law liens of possession are superior to prior security interests. However, despite this, the Mississippi court adjudicated that Trustmark’s prior security interest had priority over Appellant’s lien. Since Trustmark is seeking to enforce the Mississippi judgment in Tennessee, Appellant avers that Tennessee law concerning priority should apply and thus Appellant’s Tennessee common law possessory lien should retain superiority against Trustmark’s foreign judgment. We disagree.
As previously noted in the facts section of this opinion, “where an aсtion is brought on a judgment rendered by a court of a sister state, the full faith and credit clause of the federal constitution prohibits an inquiry into the merits of the original cause of action.”
Mirage,
Under Tennessee law, “[t]he doctrine of res judicata ‘bars a second suit
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between the same parties or their privies on the same cause of action with respect to all issues which were or could have been litigated in thе former suit.’ ”
Cohn v. Bd. of Prof'l Responsibility,
Despite the fact that Appellant had the opportunity to argue priority in the Mississippi hearing, Appellant next argues that the lower court erred in extending full faith and credit to Trustmark’s Mississippi replevin judgment because such judgment violates public policy in Tennessee. Specifically, in his brief, Appellant states that
the foreign judgment even based on a security interest recorded in the State of Mississippi, cannot be superior or take priority over a common hen of possession for any reason because it is part of the public policy law of the State of Tennessee, an age old rule created by the Supreme Court of this State that few people have ever questioned.
We disagree.
This Court has previously recognized that a “judgment of the court of another state does not necessarily violate the public policy of this State merely because the law upon which it is bаsed is different from our law.”
Four Seasons Gardening & Landscaping, Inc. v. Crouch,
[ojriginally an artisan’s hen on chattels retained in his possession was superior tо a hen of retained title, unless the artisan had knowledge of the prior hen. Robinson Bros. Motor Co. v. Knight (1926)154 Tenn. 631 ,288 S.W. 725 . The passage of the Motor Vehicle Title and Registration Law of 1951 altered this concept. City Finance Co. v. Perry (1953)195 Tenn. 81 ,257 S.W.2d 1 ,36 A.L.R.2d 224 , interpreted this Act to mean that when filing of the title certificate was had with the Motor Vehicle Division of the Tennessee Department of Safety, and a notation of a lien or encumbrance was placed upon the certificate, constructive notice of this hen or encumbrance was imposed upon subsequent purchasers or lienors. That сase specifically held that a hen on an automobile duly recorded upon the title certificate took priority over a subsequent possessory hen of an artisan.
The law was again settled until the passage of the Uniform Commercial Code *59 by the Tennessee Legislature in 1963....
The subject оf priority of liens is specifically covered by T.C.A. s 47-9-310, which provides as follows:
“ ‘Priority of certain liens arising by operation of law. — When a person in the ordinary course of his business, furnishes services or materials with respect to goods subject to a security interest, a lien upon goods in the possession of such person given by statute or rule of law for such materials or services takes priority over a perfected security interest unless the lien is statutory and the statute expressly provides otherwise. (Acts 1963, ch. 81, s 1 (9 — 310)[) ].’ ”
Gibson,
As can be seen in the above case, Tennessee law concerning the priority of pos-sessory hens does not constitute an “age old rule” that has seldom been questioned. Rather, Tennessee case law shows that this area of the law has undergone many changes over the cоurse of the last several decades and has, at times, granted prior lien holders priority over holders of liens of possession. As a result, we find that the enforcement of the Mississippi judgment giving Trustmark’s lien priority over Appellant’s Tennessee common law posses-sory hen does not violate any strong public pohcy of this State. We affirm.
Conclusion
Based upon the foregoing, we affirm the trial court on all issues brought before this Court. Costs of this appeal are awarded against the Appellant, Alvis Miller, and his surety, for which execution may issue if necessary.