Freehe v. Freehe

Plaintiff, Clifford Freehe, seeks compensation for personal injuries allegedly sustained due to defendant’s negligent maintenance of a tractor and failure to warn plaintiff of the tractor’s unsafe condition. The claim for relief would be just the normal action in tort for personal injury but for the fact that the defendant is the wife of the plaintiff, thus bringing into issue the doctrine of inter-spousal tort immunity.

The farm on which the accident took place is the separate property of defendant, doing business under the name of Hazel Knoblauch. The tractor involved in this accident,…