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MACEY v. ROZBICKI

18 N.Y.2d 289 (1966)

Jean Macey, Appellant, v. Rita Rozbicki et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 20, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherwood E. Freed for appellant.

Stephen R. Cochrane for respondents.

Judges FULD, BURKE, SCILEPPI and BERGAN concur with Chief Judge DESMOND; Judge KEATING concurs in a separate opinion; Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents and votes to affirm.

Chief Judge DESMOND.

The question of law is: should there be applied to this personal injury negligence suit the law of the place of the wrong, which would be Ontario's "guest statute" (Ontario Rev. Stat. 1960, ch. 172, § 105, subd. 2) or should the applicable law be held to be that of New York State? As explained in Babcock v. Jackson (12 N.Y.2d 473 [1963]), the...

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