HOSKINS v. CURRIN

No. 754.

88 S.E.2d 228 (1955)

242 N.C. 432

Joan HIbbs HOSKINS v. Lucius A. CURRIN, Jr. and wife, Pauline Currin, and Ralph Hicks Currin.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wright T. Dixon, Jr., Raleigh, for plaintiff.

Royster & Royster, Oxford, for defendants and intervenor.


DENNY, Justice.

The appellant challenges the validity of the judgment entered below on the ground that the courts of North Carolina are bound by the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution of the United States, Article IV, Section 1, to recognize and enforce the modified decree of the California court. Therefore, she takes the position that the court below was bound by the findings of the California court with respect to her present fitness to have the care...

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