Barber v. Barber

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1944-12-04

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Mr. Chief Justice Stone delivered the opinion of the Court. The question for decision is whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee, in a suit brought upon a North Carolina judgment for arrears of alimony, rightly denied full faith and credit to the judgment, on the ground that it lacks finality because, by the law of North Carolina, it is subject to modification or recall by the court which entered it. <p id…

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