Reaves v. Earle-Chesterfield Mill Co.

“Tbe state has power to pass an act that will apply to injuries suffered by an employee in another state” (1 Schneider, Workmen’s Compensation, 2nd Ed., p. 414), but tbis police power is necessarily a limited one in view of tbe essential requirements of interstate comity and state sovereignty. In Farr v. Lumber Co., 182 N. C., 725, tbe injured plaintiff bad contracted in Tennessee with tbe Tennessee defendant but was injured in North Carolina; in bis suit in North Carolina tbe Tennessee Compensation Act was pleaded, but tbe extra-territorial effect of that act was denied by tbe bolding that…