BARBER v. BARBER

No. 51.

323 U.S. 77 (1944)

BARBER v. BARBER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 4, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. C.W.K. Meacham, with whom Mr. J.Y. Jordan, Jr. was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. J. Clifford Curry submitted for respondent.


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.

In 1920 petitioner secured in the Superior Court of North...

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