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CONQUISTADOR HOTEL CORP. v. FORTINO

No. 79-1989.

99 Wis.2d 16 (1980)

298 N.W.2d 236

CONQUISTADOR HOTEL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Phil FORTINO, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided September 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Robert C. Kunda of Brookfield.

For the plaintiff-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Burke & Schoetz and Willard G. Neary, of counsel, of Milwaukee.

Before Decker, C.J., Moser, P.J., and Cannon, J.

DECKER, C.J.

This case raises the question of whether the state of Wisconsin should accord full faith and credit to a foreign judgment rendered in a commonwealth of the United States enforcing a gambling debt. The trial court ordered that the plaintiff be allowed to enforce the judgment in the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, and we affirm.

Defendant spent three or four days at the Conquistador Hotel in Puerto Rico, and gambled at the hotel using the "marker...

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