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DURFEE v. DUKE

No. 37.

375 U.S. 106 (1963)

84 S.Ct. 242

11 L.Ed.2d 186

DURFEE ET UX. v. DUKE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 2, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

August Ross argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Harold W. Kauffman.

Robert A. Brown argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.

Clarence A. H. Meyer, Attorney General of Nebraska, filed a brief for the State of Nebraska, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Thomas F. Eagleton, Attorney General of Missouri, and Joseph Nessenfeld and Howard L. McFadden, Assistant Attorneys General, filed a brief for the State of Missouri, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.

MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

The United States Constitution requires that "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the . . . judicial Proceedings of every other State."1 The case before us presents questions arising under this constitutional provision and under the federal statute enacted to implement it.2

In 1956 the...

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