Court Opinion

ID: 9461997
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:29:25.800058+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:21.134399
License: Public Domain

WOLLENBERG, District Judge
(concurring):
I concur in the result reached by Judge Kilkenny, but I think the case presents a true conflict situation which should be resolved in the manner suggested by Judge Sneed in his concurring opinion. My reading of McDaniel v. Sinn, 194 Kan. 625, 400 P.2d 1018 (1965), and La Prelle v. Cessna Aircraft Company, 85 F.Supp. 182 (D.Kan.1949), convinces me that Kansas would apply its own substantive law if this action were brought in a Kansas forum. Since Kansas does not recognize strict liability as a basis for recovery, Kansas would refuse *615to apply the conflicting law of either Oregon or Washington. Judge Sneed’s discussion of the relevant policy considerations persuades me that his is the most sensible resolution of the conflict.