Case ID: misc_92/html/0417-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Newburger, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Gertrude E. Tiedemann, Plaintiff, v. Rudolph Ernest Tiedemann, Defendant.
    (Supreme Court, New York Special Term,
    November, 1915.)
    Statutes — provisions of laws of Kansas — when statutes of state of New York may make like provisions. ' 1
    . Tbe laws of Kansas provide for community interest. A provision in a .decree of a court of competent jurisdiction in that state that defendant account for all community property belonging to plaintiff and. defendant wherever situated fixes the status of the parties and the judgment in an action brought in this state on said decree may make a like provision.
    Action to recover upon a decree of a Nevada court.
    House, Grossman & Vorhaus, for pláintiff.
    Rockwood & Haldane, for defendant.
   Newburger, J.

Plaintiff seeks to recover upon a decree of a Nevada court the sum of $4,539.10, principal and interest, conceded by defendant to be unpaid. The question of jurisdiction has been determined both by the Supreme Court of Nevada and our own court. See Tiedemann v. Tiedemann, 35 Nev. 259, and 36 id. 494; opinion of Mr. Justice Erlanger, N. Y. L. J., March 12, 1915, affirmed by the Appellate Division June 26, 1915. Therefore the plaintiff is entitled to recover the amount awarded, under the decree, but I am asked to compel the defendant to account “as to all community property belonging to the. plaintiff and defendant, wherever situated.” It has been repeatedly held in this. state that “as to all judgments, if they once and for all establish a debt or other- obligation' against a party, the record is available in other jurisdictions as a foundation for a judgment there.” See France v. France, 79 App. Div. 291, and cases therein cited. The laws of Nevada providing for community interest and the decree providing that defendant account for all community property belonging to plaintiff and defendant wherever situated fix the status of the parties, and plaintiff is entitled to a decree as prayed for.

Judgment for plaintiff.