CHAPMAN v. CHAPMAN


5 A.D.2d 257 (1957)

Marjory Chapman, Respondent, v. Montgomery W. Chapman, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 19, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herzog, Nichols & Leahy for appellant.

Thomas J. McCarthy, Albert G. Avery and Franklin M. Peabody for respondent.

Frederick M. Reed, Attorney-General of the State of Vermont (Stephen B. Richardson, Deputy Attorney-General, of counsel), amicus curia.

BERGAN, COON and GIBSON, JJ., concur with FOSTER, P. J.; HALPERN, J., concurs in the result, in a separate memorandum.


FOSTER, P. J.

This appeal poses as its prime issue whether a judgment of the courts of the State of Vermont is entitled, under the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution, to be enforced in this State. The judgment is a decree of absolute divorce in favor of the plaintiff and carries with it a personal judgment against the defendant for a lump sum alimony in the amount of $25,000. Appellant...

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