Williams v. Williams

Plaintiff, Frances E. Williams, filed an action in the circuit court of Rock Island County alleging that while riding as a passenger in an automobile being driven by defendant, William A. Williams, in Lowndes County, Mississippi, she suffered personal injuries as the result of defendant’s negligently causing his automobile to strike an oncoming automobile. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss on the ground that at the time of the occurrence plaintiff and defendant were husband and wife and that under the provisions of section 1 of “An Act to revise the law in relation to husband and wife”…