Tennessee Carolina Transportation, Inc. v. Strick Corp.

HUSKINS, Justice.

The sales contract here involved was executed in Pennsylvania but was to be performed, apparently, in Illinois. Although the applicable law is clear where a contract is made and is to be performed in the same foreign state, Motor Co. v. Wood, 238 N.C. 468, 78 S.E. 2d 391 (1953); Price v. Goodman, 226 N.C. 223, 37 S.E. 2d 592 (1946), no North Carolina case has determined what law applies where the place of performance differs from the place of contracting. See Arnold v. Charles Enterprises, 264 N.C. 92, 141 S.E. 2d 14 (1965); Wurfel, Choice of Law Rules in North Carolina, 48…