Case Name: Wilson v. Tunstall
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1851
Citations: 6 Tex. 221
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wilson v. Tunstall.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 111–111

Head Matter:
TYLER TERM, 1851.
Wilson v. Tunstall.
Subsequent to the net of .January 19,1811, (Hart. Dig., art. 1022,) and previous to the act of June 28 1815, (11 art. Dig., art. 1025.) an action could not lie brought upon tho judgment of a foreign court except in the eases provided for in the former act.
Error from Lamar. This suit was brought by tho defendant in error against the plaintiff in error on the 20th clay of June, 1845, upon a judgment for a sum of money alleged to have been theretofore rendered in the State of Arkansas.
There was a demurrer to the petition whioh the court overruled, and a verdict and judgment thereon for the plaintiff, and the defendant brought a writ of error.
Young Morgan, for plaintiff in error.
A. Morrill, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Wheeler, J.
Repeated decisions of this court have settled that previous to.the annexation of Texas to tho Uni,ted States and subsequent to tlie act of the Congress of the Republic of the 19th of January, 1841, (5 Stat., p. 44, sec. 2,) an action could not be maintained on the judgment of a foreign State. (1 Tex. R., 304; 2 Id., 509.)
This suit was brought within the indicated period, is based solely on the judgment of a foreign State, and consequently is not maintainable. The judgment is therefore erroneous, and must be reversed and the case dismissed.
Judgment reversed.