Deemer v. Silk City Textile MacH. Co.

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• noting that New Jersey courts have abandoned “mechanical application” of lex loci delicti doctrine in favor of “govemmental interest approach” in choice-of-law questions
• finding North Carolina law applied to product liability claim where plaintiff suffered injury in North Carolina, but where the product was manufactured in New Jersey by a manufacturer organized in New Jersey
• finding North Carolina law applied to product liability claim where plaintiff suffered injury in North Carolina, but where the product was manufactured in New Jersey by a manufacturer organized in New Jersey
• products liability action where plaintiff was North Carolina resident but product was designed and manufactured in New Jersey
• Plaintiffs, North Carolina residents, could not receive benefit of New Jersey product liability law where a vehicle was purchased in North Carolina and accident occurred there.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).