Cole v. State Automobile & Casualty Underwriters

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting “contracting parties can themselves determine the law which is to control” and applying Restatement where they did not
• applying a conflict of laws analysis when Minnesota law and Iowa law differed and where the negligent motorist was unidentifiable
• “The second Restatement recognizes widespread repudiation of the test espoused in the first Restatement.”
• “We think it is clear that choice-of-law questions are now to be determined under the Restatement (Second) test.”
• “The second Restatement recognizes widespread repudiation of the test espoused in the first Restatement.”
• \We think it is clear that choice-of-law questions [involving contract issues] are now to be determined under the Restatement (Second) test: intent of the parties or the most significant relationship.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).