CONKLIN v. HORNER


38 Wis.2d 468 (1968)

CONKLIN, Respondent, v. HORNER and another, Appellants. [Case No. 251.] THURLBY, Respondent, v. SAME, Appellants. [Case No. 252.]

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

April 9, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief by Heide, Sheldon, Hartley & Thom and W. A. Sheldon, all of Kenosha, and oral argument by W. A. Sheldon.

For the respondents there was a brief by Kenney, Korf & Pfeil of Elkhorn, and oral argument by Richard H. Pfeil.


HEFFERNAN, J.

The defendants' claim is based upon our decision in Wilcox v. Wilcox (1965), 26 Wis.2d 617, 133 N.W.2d 408, where we abandoned the choice-of-law rule of lex loci delicti and adopted in its stead a more flexible methodology based upon the qualitative analysis of the contacts that one or more jurisdictions might have with the relevant facts. We adopted the general approach of Babcock v. Jackson (1963...

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