Case Name: Carol E. THOURON, Appellant, v. Carol Victoria K. McCOY
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1973-04-25
Citations: 477 F.2d 454
Docket Number: No. 72-1476
Parties: Carol E. THOURON, Appellant, v. Carol Victoria K. McCOY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 477
Pages: 454–455

Head Matter:
Carol E. THOURON, Appellant, v. Carol Victoria K. McCOY.
No. 72-1476.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Argued March 5, 1973.
Decided April 25, 1973.
F. Alton Tybout, Tybout, Redfearn & Schnee, Wilmington, Del., for appellant.
E. N. Carpenter, II, Allen M. Terrell, Jr., Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., for appellee.
Before GIBBONS and JAMES HUNTER, III, Circuit Judges, and MUIR, District Judge.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM:
The district court sitting in a diversity case in Delaware concluded that a Delaware state court would apply Pennsylvania law to the undisputed facts in this case. Since Pennsylvania has by statute abolished the cause of action for alienation of affections pleaded in the complaint, Pa.Stat.Ann. tit. 48, § 170, 172, the court granted summary judgment. We have concluded that the district court decided this conflict of laws issue as it would have been decided by a Delaware state court. Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Co., 313 U.S. 487, 61 S.Ct. 1020, 85 L.Ed. 1477 (1941). Delaware, in resolving conflicts of laws issues, stresses particularly the desirability of certainty of operation of the rule. Friday v. Smoot, 211 A.2d 594, 595 (Del.1965). The district court's decision is consistent with this approach, since the location of the marital domicile is certain, whereas the place where enticement succeeded often may be, and in this case is, quite uncertain. The cause of action has since been abolished in Delaware as well as in Pennsylvania. 10 Del.C Ann. § 3925. Thus, an extended discussion would have no precedential value.
The judgment of the district court will be affirmed.