Legal Opinion
Veazey v. Doremus
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 10, 1986PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
POLLOCK, J.
This appeal presents a choice-of-law question relating to the issue of the capacity of one spouse to sue another for personal injuries arising out of the other spouse’s negligent operation of an automobile. The question arises because Florida, the spouses’ state of domicile, recognizes interspousal immunity, but New Jersey, the forum and the place where the accident occurred, has abolished that immunity.
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While riding as a passenger in a car driven by his wife, George Veazey was injured in New Jersey when their car collided with a car owned…
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- Merenoff v. MerenoffSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1978
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