Conklin v. Horner

The majority has overemphasized the Wisconsin contacts and has favored Wisconsin governmental interests and better law in determining that this state had the most significant relationship to the host-guest issue in this personal injury action. Wisconsin has only two contacts, the forum and the place of accident (here, the place of conduct and injury coincide). Illinois has substantial contacts, the domicile of all the parties and the center of the host-guest relation, which is the very issue involved. To paraphrase Wilcox v. Wilcox (1965), 26 Wis. 2d 617, 631, 133 N. W. 2d 408, we are…