X, a resident of Indiana, gets on a Greyhound bus in Ohio.Greyhound is a New Jersey corporation with its primary place of business in New York.X buys a candy bar at a Greyhound bus terminal in Kentucky out of a machine leased to Greyhound by a West Virginia candy distributor.X unwraps the candy bar in Tennessee, eats it in Georgia, gets sick in Alabama, and dies on reaching his destination in Florida.X's widow, who has been living apart from her husband in Illinois, brings suit for the wrongful death of her husband in an Illinois court of general jurisdiction against Greyhound and the candy distributor.Which state's law should apply if the court uses the lex loci delicti commissi conflict of laws approach?

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Under the lex loci delicti commissi approach, the law of the state where the injury occurred should apply. In this case, X got sick and died in Alabama, so Alabama's law should apply. However, none of the given choices are states where the injury occurred, so none of their laws would apply.

X, a Resident of Indiana, Gets on a Greyhound Bus