Conway v. Green's Adm'r

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Ohio uses the factors from Section 188 of the Restatement of Conflict of Laws where there is not an express choice-of-law provision
• noting that “subject to very limited exceptions, the law of the state chosen by the parties to a contract will govern their contractual rights and duties”
• upholding Ohio Appellate Court's remand for application of Ohio law to parties' dispute when trial court incorrectly applied Pennsylvania law
• applying Ohio law as the place of contracting, rather than Pennsylvania law as the place of injury
• referring to the Restatement’s test as a needed “predictable methodology * * * to choose the applicable law if neither the parties nor the statutory scheme make that choice for them.”
• discussing Restatement (Second) of Conflicts §§ 187–88 (Am. L. Inst. 1971)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).