Boright v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

If it be the duty of Minnesota courts to try these imported cases, however devious the route over which they come or however distant the state of origin, the duty must exist by reason of Minnesota’s being one of the United States and so subject to their constitution; or it must be found in that principle of the common law known as comity. There being no effort in the opinion of the majority to put the supposed duty upon any foundation of recognized legal and stated principle, I must examine the result from the standpoint of both (1) constitutional law and (2)' comity.

1. I agree with the first…