Griggs v. Riley

SMITH, Judge.

This automobile accident case reaches us upon a judgment of $5000 for plaintiff in accord with a jury verdict.

Although defendant has raised eleven points in this court, three of them relate directly to the most serious question of law presented — the applicability of Kennedy v. Dixon, Mo., 439 S.W.2d 173, to the facts here.

In Kennedy Missouri abandoned the rigid doctrine of lex loci delicti in determining the law to be applied in tort cases in favor of the more liberal approach advocated by Restatement (Second) on Conflict of Laws, § 145. There, two Missouri residents took a trip…