Mellk v. Sarahson

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• concluding that New Jersey’s concern for protecting the plaintiff, who was a New Jersey domiciliary, gave it a sufficient interest in the application of New Jersey law; Ohio had no interest in the application of its guest statute
• finding state “has a real interest in having its rules of the road apply to the conduct of the parties in the operation of a motor vehicle on the highways of that state.”
• Where New Jersey residents are involved, New Jersey’s strongly declared policy favoring compensation for its domi-ciliaries prevails
• New Jersey's \strong * * * policy\ of allowing recovery by injured guest for injuries caused by host-driver's negligence \is not diminished merely because accident occurred in another state\
• foregoing application of lex loci approach
• foregoing application of lex loci approach

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).