INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN ET AL. v. McCARTIN ET AL. (330 U.S. 622)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 31, 1947 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 330 U.S. 622 · 67 S. Ct. 886
- Decided
- March 31, 1947
- Term
- October Term 1946
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Murphy
- Issue area
- Interstate Relations
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Unspecifiable
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Justice Murphy delivered the opinion of the Court. In Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt, 320 U. S. 430, this Court had occasion to consider the effect of the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution of the United States where awards are sought under the workmen’s compensation laws of two states. This case presents another facet of that problem. The facts are undisputed. Leo Thomas Kopp worked as a bricklayer for E. E. McCartin. Both were residents of Illinois. Pursuant to a contract made in Illinois, Kopp worked for McCartin on a building job in Wisconsin. He drove back and forth between his home in Illinois and his work in Wisconsin. While thus employed in Wisconsin, Kopp suffered an injury to his left eye. On June 7, 1943, he filed an application for adjustment of claim with the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin. McCartin and his insurance carrier entered an objection to the jurisdiction of the Wisconsin Commission to hear the claim. Then on July 20, 1943, Kopp filed an application for adjustment of claim with the Industrial Commission of Illinois, in which the general nature of the dispute was given as “Whether Illinois or Wisconsin has jurisdiction in my case.” Under date of October 11, 1943, the Wisconsin Commission wrote the insurance carrier that Kopp had been informed that, so far as Wisconsin law was concerned, he was entitled to proceed under the Illinois…
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