PARKER v. HOEFER


2 N.Y.2d 612 (1957)

Lorraine W. J. Parker, Respondent, v. Sylvia G. Hoefer, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Wels and Alan D. Marcus for appellant.

N. Holmes Clare for respondent.

CONWAY, Ch. J., DESMOND, FULD and BURKE, JJ., concur with DYE, J.; FROESSEL, J., dissents in an opinion in which VAN VOORHIS, J., concurs.


DYE, J.

In this appeal by our permission, we consider whether New York must give full faith and credit to a foreign judgment, notwithstanding that the underlying claim would not be enforcible in the State.

The plaintiff, a resident of Vermont, has a final judgment against the defendant, a resident of New York, in an action for alienation of her husband's affections and for criminal conversation. When such...

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