Legal Opinion
Wuchter v. Pizzutti
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 20, 1928No. 142PublishedCited by 426 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
This case involves the validity, under tl\e Fourteenth Amendment, of a statute of New Jersey providing for service of process on non-residents of the State in suits for injury by the negligent operation of automobiles on its highways.
Pizzutti was driving a team of horses attached to a wagon on a public highway in New Jersey. Wuchter was a resident of Pennsylvania who was following the wagon with his automobile. Wuchter drove his car so as to crash into the rear of the wagon, damaging it, and injuring Pizzutti and his horses. Pizzutti instituted a suit against Wuchter in the Supreme Court of…
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