Royston v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Plaintiff appeals as of right from an order entered in the Ingham County Circuit Court granting defendant summary judgment pursuant to GCR 1963, 117.2(3) and holding that plaintiff was not entitled to no-fault benefits for the injuries he sustained. Plaintiff now appeals as of right.

On November 25, 1979, plaintiff and his brother-in-law drove a semi-trailer truck to Wexford County to be used to haul Christmas trees. Piles of trees were loaded onto the truck through the use of a bale elevator, commonly used in farming operations for elevating hay. Approximately 2,000 trees constituted a full…