milliken meyer argued december decided december rehearing denied see mandate conformed march see jean breitenstein denver edward freeman new york city petitioners fred caldwell denver respondent justice douglas delivered opinion colorado held null void judgment wyoming claim milliken judgment entitled full faith credit federal constitution case petition certiorari granted substantial character federal question raised controversy interest profits operation certain colorado oil properties august contracted pay meyer profits milliken asserted claim interest share settlement dispute transcontinental may contracted pay milliken interest milliken transcontinental claims meyer pertaining lands question meyer interest profits later milliken instituted suit wyoming alleging joint adventure transcontinental meyer charging conspiracy part defraud rights sought cancellation contracts may accounting transcontinental meyer meyer asserted resident wyoming personally served process colorado pursuant wyoming statutes made appearance wyoming cause transcontinental appeared answered found joint venture milliken transcontinental contracts may valid action transcontinental dismissed prejudice found however joint venture milliken meyer entitled share equally net profits meyer regularly received refused account milliken part purport decree interest milliken anyone else entered personam judgment meyer profits meyer withheld milliken together interest thereon enjoined transcontinental paying meyer receiving net profits july thereafter share withheld meyer paid milliken respondent instituted colorado praying inter alia judgment milliken sums withheld wyoming judgment paid milliken injunction milliken attempting enforce wyoming judgment decree wyoming judgment nullity want jurisdiction meyer property bill alleged inter alia meyer time service wyoming long ceased resident wyoming resident colorado service obtained give wyoming jurisdiction person property judgment violative due process clause fourteenth amendment milliken answer alleged inter alia meyer resident wyoming time wyoming action wyoming judgment entitled full faith credit colorado federal constitution article colorado issues joined found meyer domiciled wyoming wyoming suit commenced wyoming statutes substituted service constitutional affidavit constructive meyer filed good faith substantially conformed wyoming statute stated truth wyoming jurisdiction person meyer wyoming void bill dismissed judgment reversed colorado pass question whether wyoming jurisdiction parties subject matter held wyoming decree void face irreconcilable contradiction findings decree view finding wyoming milliken assignment may transcontinental claims meyer valid deprived ground upon predicate judgment meyer since basis action milliken meyer rested upon claim assignment judgment rendered one state challenged another want jurisdiction either person subject matter course open inquiry grover baker sewing machine radcliffe adam saenger judgment face appears general jurisdiction jurisdiction cause parties presumed unless disproved extrinsic evidence record adam saenger supra page page case full faith credit clause constitution precludes inquiry merits cause action logic consistency decision validity legal principles judgment based fauntleroy lum roche mcdonald titus wallick whatever mistakes law may underlie judgment cooper reynolds wall media concludendi fauntleroy lum supra page page accordingly wyoming jurisdiction meyer holding colorado wyoming judgment void inconsistency findings decree warranted findings colorado trial impaired colorado clear wyoming jurisdiction meyer suit domicile state alone sufficient bring absent defendant within reach state jurisdiction purposes personal judgment means appropriate substituted service substituted service cases quite uniformly upheld absent defendant served usual place abode state huntley baker hun hurlbut thomas harryman roberts md well personally served without state hendrickson substituted service may wholly adequate meet requirements due process recognized mcdonald mabee despite earlier intimations contrary see pennoyer neff burdick service requirement due process actions personam adequacy far due process concerned dependent whether form substituted service provided cases employed reasonably calculated give actual notice proceedings opportunity heard traditional notions fair play substantial justice mcdonald mabee supra implicit due process satisfied question score meyer merely receive actual notice wyoming proceedings outside state personally served accordance statutory scheme wyoming provided occasions view machinery employed met requirements due process certainly meyer domicile wyoming sufficient basis extraterritorial service case authority absent citizens blackmer authority state one citizens terminated mere fact absence state state accords privileges affords protection property virtue domicile may also exact reciprocal duties privileges residence within state attendant right invoke protection laws inseparable various incidences state citizenship see lawrence state tax commission new york ex rel cohn graves responsibilities citizenship arise relationship state domicile creates relationship dissolved mere absence state attendant duties like rights privileges incident domicile dependent continuous presence state one incidence domicile amenability suit within state even sojourns without state state provided employed reasonable method apprising absent party proceedings see restatement conflict laws dodd jurisdiction personal actions reasonable method provided employed reversed footnotes transcontinental oil co june transcontinental disposed interest properties question texas production co april ohio oil acquired remaining interest transcontinental properties milliken son carl milliken interest milliken claim likewise assigned transcontinental provided publication may either following cases actions defendant resident state departed county residence intent delay defraud creditors avoid service summons keeps concealed like intent sec provided service state cases service may made publication provisions chapter personal service copy summons petition said action may made state summons issued service state shall returnable option party issued second third fourth monday date shall require defendant defendants named therein answer petition said action third saturday return day named said summons deposition however taken oral interrogatories concerning legal residence wyoming ohio oil one vendees transcontinental payments margaret milliken milliken interests assigned texas production ohio oil joined defendants filed separate answers material noted however ohio oil answer set contract milliken transcontinental whereby milliken assigned rights meyer lands interest question transcontinental alleged milliken estopped thereby make claims disputed interest affidavit constructive service stated accordance wyoming supra note meyer concealed order avoid service summons present record show whether wyoming found wyoming judgment seem proved respondents accordance provisions suit colorado set aside judgment proved answers since colorado trial gave wyoming judgment full faith credit despite lack proof respondents claim error