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Williams Vs. North Carolina

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Dec 21, 1942

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  10. Williams v. North
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  11. Carolina - 317 U.S. 287 (1942) U.S. Supreme Court Williams v. North
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  12. Carolina, 317 U.S. 287 (1942) Williams v. North
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  13. grounds upon which it may rest is invalid under the Federal Constitution, the judgment cannot be sustained. Stromberg v. California
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  14. was performed and where the other party to the marriage was still domiciled when the divorce was decreed. Haddock v. Haddock
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  15. service where the defendant made no appearance would not be recognized in North Carolina under the rule of Pridgen v. Pridgen
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  16. a divorce through fraud upon that court. On that issue, the court charged the jury that, under the rule of State v. Herron
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  17. by reason of Haddock v. Haddock
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  18. may have been an alternative ground for the decision below, adequate to sustain the judgment under the rule of Bell v. Bell
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  19. In the second place, the verdict against petitioners was a general one. Hence, even though the doctrine of Bell v. Bell
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  20. that ground alone, since it did not specify the basis on which it rested. It therefore follows here, as in Stromberg v. California
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  21. which would cause a serious impairment of constitutional rights. Accordingly, we cannot avoid meeting the Haddock v. Haddock
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  22. Nevada. If the case had been tried and submitted on that issue only, we would have quite a different problem, as Bell v. Bell
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  23. Nevada court, petitioners had no actual, bona fide domicil in Nevada, if and only if we concluded that Haddock v. Haddock
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  24. Chief Justice Marshall stated in Hampton v. M'Connel
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  25. That view has survived substantially intact. Fauntleroy v. Lum
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  26. faith and credit be given judgments of a state court. Davis v. Davis
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  27. local policy, the judgment thereon obtained in a sister state is entitled to full faith and credit. See Christmas v. Russell
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  28. Kenney v. Supreme
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  29. been engrafted on the rule laid down by Chief Justice Marshall. But, as stated by Mr. Justice Brandeis in Broderick v. Rosner
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  30. show that the Page 317 U. S. 295 actual exceptions have been few and far between, apart from Haddock v. Haddock
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  31. is necessary. Alaska Packers Assn. v. Industrial
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  32. that state, as respects its domiciliaries, to the statutes of any other state. Certainly Bradford Electric Light Co. v. Clapper
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  33. U. S. 145 , did not so hold. Indeed, the recent case of Pacific Employers Ins. Co. v. Industrial
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  34. Moreover, Haddock v. Haddock
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  35. by the courts of the forum. It does not purport to challenge or disturb the rule, earlier established by Christmas v. Russell
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  36. supra, and subsequently fortified by Fauntleroy v. Lum
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  37. state is entitled to full faith and credit. For the majority opinion in the Haddock case accepted both Cheever v. Wilson
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  38. Wall. 108, and Atherton v. Atherton
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  39. U. S. 155 . Cheever v. Wilson
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  40. jurisdiction over the other was as conclusive in other states as it was in the state where it was obtained. Atherton v. Atherton
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  41. against the other spouse who was a nonresident of that state. The decisive difference between those cases and Haddock v. Haddock
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  42. had acquired a separate domicil after having wrongfully left his wife. This Court accordingly classified Haddock v. Haddock
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  43. But such differences in result between Haddock v. Haddock
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  44. as distinguished from a mere residence, in the state. Latterner v. Latterner
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  45. Lamb v. Lamb
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  46. Domicil creates a relationship to the state which is adequate for numerous exercises of state power. See Lawrence v. State
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  47. spouse is absent. There is no constitutional barrier if the form and nature of the substituted service ( see Milliken v. Meyer
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  48. supra, p. 311 U. S. 463 ) meet the requirements of due process. Atherton v. Atherton
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  49. U.S. 569, 201 U. S. 572 , 201 U. S. 575 , 201 U. S. 579 . And this Court, in Maynard v. Hill
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  50. of the other spouses by the North Carolina marriages. Apart from the requirements of procedural due process ( Atherton v. Atherton
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