Howard G. Dindo v. Harold O. Whitney

Plaintiff, a resident of Vermont, and defendant, a resident of New Hampshire, agreed to go on a hunting trip in northern Maine. Plaintiff drove from his home to defendant’s, and later, plaintiff driving defendant’s ear, they proceeded through the Province of Quebec en route to Maine. While in Canada they went off the road. Plaintiff brought a diversity action in the District Court for the District of New Hampshire for negligence, claiming that defendant physically interfered with the steering wheel. Under Quebec law the statute of limitations had run at the time of suit, whereas the New…