Johnson v. Spider Staging Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Washington’s policy of full compensation in wrongful death actions demonstrated Washington’s deterrence policy regarding the tortious conduct of manufacturers
• holding that Washington applies the “most significant relationship” test
• requiring determination of convenience to the parties and justice “if the action were brought and tried in another forum”
• Washington was an inconvenient forum despite defendant being a corporation with its principal place of business in this state
• applying the “most significant relationship” test to determine whether to apply Washington or Kansas law on damages in a wrongful death action
• noting a presumption that law of state 19 where injury occurred applies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).