Risdon Enterprises, Inc. v. Colemill Enterprises, Inc.

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• explaining Georgia's lex loci delecti choice of law rule in tort cases
• explaining Georgia’s lex loci delecti choice of law rule in tort cases
• the “last event” refers to “the place where the injury sustained was suffered rather than the place where the act was committed”
• “Where the rights of parties depend upon South Carolina law, and no statute of that state is pleaded or proved, this court will presume that the common law is to be applied there.”
• applying the substantive law of the place of the injury
• “Under Georgia law, the lex loci delicti determines the substantive rights of the parties. . . . The general rule is that the place of wrong, the locus delicti, is the place where the injury sustained was suffered . . . .” (cleaned up)

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