Wilcox, Appellant v. Wilcox and Another, Respondents

Summary

The court rejected Wisconsin's rigid lex loci delicti rule for tort conflicts and adopted a flexible most-significant-relationship approach focused on the policies and interests of the states connected to the occurrence and the parties. Applying that approach, it held that Wisconsin law governed the guest's negligence claim because the parties, vehicle, insurance, and relationship were centered in Wisconsin, while the accident's occurrence in Nebraska was fortuitous. The court therefore reversed the trial court's ruling and remanded for further proceedings with the demurrer overruled.