Moats v. Metropolitan Bank of Lima

The issue before us is whether Ohio or Pennsylvania substantive law should be applied under the facts above-stated.

Prior to this court’s decisions in Fox v. Morrison Motor Freight (1971), 25 Ohio St. 2d 193, 267 N. E. 2d 405, and Schiltz v. Meyer (1972), 29 Ohio St. 2d 169, 280 N. E. 2d 925, it was well established in Ohio that the substantive law of the place where the injury occurred was controlling in cases such as the one at bar. The rule of lex loci delicti prevailed. Freas v. Sullivan (1936), 130 Ohio St. 486, 200 N. E. 639; Collins v. McClure (1944), 143 Ohio St. 569, 56 N. E. 2d 171;…