Fox v. Morrison Motor Freight, Inc.

The sole issue involved herein is whether the Ohio law or the Illinois law should be applied in determining the amount of damages recoverable. Application of the law of the place where the injuries occurred would limit plaintiff’s maximum recovery to the amount entered by the trial court. Ohio law places no limit on the amount of damages recoverable in a wrongful death action.

This court has never determined whether to apply another state’s limitation of the amount of recovery in a wrongful death action brought in Ohio in a case where the occurrence causing death took place in the other state.…