Redinger v. Clapper's Tree Service Inc.

FORD ELLIOTT, Judge.

Appellants appeal from the granting of summary judgment by the trial court. Briefly, the trial court was of the opinion that appellants’ suit against appellee Y.M.C.A. was barred by the Recreation Use of Land and Water Act (hereinafter RULWA), 68 P.S. § 477-1 et seq. Plaintiff was injured by a falling tree limb while attending his son’s Little League baseball game at a diamond constructed upon appellee Y.M.C.A.’s land. Appellee Clapper’s Tree Service had been hired by appellee Y.M.C.A to care for the trees on the property and to remove rotted and/or dead trees. The tree…