Court Opinion

ID: 9705394
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:05:00.438493+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:10.811584
License: Public Domain

RATLIFF, Chief Judge,
concurring.
My personal view that the outmoded archaic doctrine of lex loci delicti should be rejected in favor of the modern "most significant relationship approach" is set forth fully in my separate opinion in Maroon v. State (1980), Ind.App., 411 N.E.2d 404, 417-20, trans. denied, and noted in footnote 1 in Hubbard Manufacturing Co. v. Greeson (1986), Ind.App., 487 N.E.2d 825, 827. I continue to hope that our supreme court will adopt what I consider the far better rule. Recognizing, however, that lex loci delicti is firmly established, as of this writing, as the law in Indiana, I concur in the majority opinion in all respects.