Henry v. Henry

LAKE, Justice.

The sole question upon this appeal is: May a wife, injured in an automobile collision upon a highway in North Carolina proximately caused by the negligence of her husband, the driver of the automobile, maintain in the courts of North Carolina an action against her husband for damages on account of such injuries, the parties being domiciled at the time of the collision in the State of Pennsylvania, under the laws of which state no such action may be maintained by a wife against her husband?

In Howard v. Howard, 200 N.C. 574, 158 S.E. 101 (1931), the husband and wife were domiciled…