Thomas v. Frosty Morn Meats Inc‪.‬

Article IV, section 1, of the Constitution of the United States commands that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the judicial proceedings of every other state. And the acts of Congress, enacted pursuant to the power granted by that clause of the Constitution, direct that judgments shall have full faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from which they are taken. Dansby v. Insurance Co., 209 N.C. 127, 183 S.E. 521. Judgments of other states are put on the same footing as domestic judgments. Webb v. Friedberg, 189 N.C. 166, 126 S.E. 508; Marsh v. R.R., 151 N.C. 160, 65 S.E. 911; Miller v. Leach, 95 N.C. 229. When a judgment rendered by a court of one state becomes the cause of action in a court of another state and the transcript made in the state of its rendition, duly authenticated as provided by the act of Congress (Title 28, USCA, § 1738; General Statutes of North Carolina, Appendix III), is produced, it imports verity and validity. Levin v. Gladstein, 142 N.C. 482, 55 S.E. 371.