# Kennedy v. Dixon

> Supreme Court of Missouri · March 10, 1969 · 439 S.W.2d 173

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9777377

## Case

- **Full name:** Lillian KENNEDY, (Plaintiff) Respondent, v. Paul E. DIXON, Administrator of the Estate of Mary Towey, Deceased, (Defendant) Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Missouri
- **Decided:** March 10, 1969
- **Citations:** 439 S.W.2d 173; 1969 Mo. LEXIS 907
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Donnelly
- **Judges:** Finch, Holman, Seiler, Donnelly, Storckman, Henley, Morgan
- **Cited by:** 164 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the rights and liabilities of the parties with respect to an issue in tort are determined by the local law of the state which, with respect to that issue, has the most significant relationship.

## Opinion text

DONNELLY, Judge
(concurring in result) .
I would not abandon the certainty of the lex loci delicti rule at this time, but, in this particular fact situation, would hold that enforcement of the Indiana Guest Statute in Missouri is against public policy. See Ehrenzweig, “A Counter-Revolution in Conflicts Law? From Beale to Cavers,” 80 Harvard Law Review, 377, 399, 400 (1966).
I concur in result.

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