Martin v. Glenwood Park Sanatorium

In this day and age in tbis commonwealth., the wife no longer, as in the days gone by, confines her activities strictly to home and domestic duties. The “help meet” frequently takes her part in industry, not connected with the home. Whether this is for weal or woe, we are not here called upon to determine. This being a fact, the General Assembly of North Carolina, in reference to the wife as a wage-earner, no doubt, in view of this changed condition, passed the provisions in the North Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act we are now called upon to construe. On the present record the only…