By the Court, Marcy, J. The states being independent sovereignties, judgments recovered in the courts of one state would he foreign judgments in every other, but for that clause in the constitution of the United States which declares that "full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state.” Article 4, § 1, Constitu…
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