n Ins. Co., 127 U.S. 265 (1888).

[92] 146 U.S. 657 (1892). _See also_ Dennick _v._ R.R. 103 U.S. 11
(1881).

[93] Milwaukee County _v._ White (N.E.) Co., 296 U.S. 268 (1935). _See
also_ Moore _v._ Mitchell, 281 U.S. 18 (1930).

[94] Bank of Augusta _v._ Earle, 13 Pet. 519, 589-596 (1839). _See_
Kryger _v._ Wilson, 242 U.S. 171 (1916); Bond _v._ Hume, 243 U.S. 15
(1917).

[95] 19 How. 393, 460 (1857); Bonaparte _v._ Tax Court, 104 U.S. 592
(1882), where it was held that a law exempting from taxation certain
bonds of the enacting State did not operate extraterritorially by virtue
of the full faith and credit clause.

[96] Chicago & Alton R. Co. _v._ Wiggins Ferry, 119 U.S. 615, 622
(1887).

[97] Smithsonian Institution _v._ St. John, 214 U.S. 19 (1909). When, in
a State court, the validity of an act of the legislature of another
State is not in question, and the controversy turns merely upon its
interpretation or construction, no question arises under the full faith
and credit clause. _See also_ Western Life Indemnity Co. _v._ Rupp, 235
U.S. 261 (1914), citing Glenn _v._ Garth, 147 U.S. 360 (1893); Lloyd
_v._ Matthews, 155 U.S. 222, 227 (1894); Banholzer _v._ New York L. Ins.
Co., 178 U.S. 402 (1900); Allen _v._ Alleghany Co., 196 U.S. 458, 465
(1905); Texas & N.O.R. Co. _v._ Miller, 221 U.S. 408 (1911). _See also_
National Mut. Bldg. & Loan Asso. _v._ Brahan, 193 U.S. 635 (1904);
Johnson _v._ New York Life Ins. Co., 187 U.S. 491, 495 (1903);
Pennsylvania F. Ins. Co. _v._ Gold Issue Min. & Mill. Co., 243 U.S. 93
(1917).

[98] Alaska Packers Asso. _v._ Industrial Acci. Commission, 294 U.S. 532
(1935); Bradford Electric Light Co. _v._ Clapper, 286 U.S. 145 (1932).

[99] Dennick _v._ R.R., 103 U.S. 11 (1881) was the first of the
so-called "Death Act" cases to reach the Supreme Court. _See also_
Stewart _v._ B.& O.R. Co., 168 U.S. 445 (1897). Even today the
obligation of a State to furnish a forum for the determination of death
claims arising in another State under the laws thereof appears to rest
on a rather precarious basis. In Hughes _v._ Fetter, 341 U.S. 609
(1951), the Court, by a narrow majority, held invalid under the full
faith and credit clause a statute of Wisconsin which, as locally
interpreted, forbade its courts to entertain suits of this nature; and
in First National Bank _v._ United Air Lines, 342 U.S. 396 (1952), a
like result was reached as to an Illinois statute. In both cases the
same four Justi