Rogers v. J B Hunt Transport, Inc

Doctoroff, RJ.

Defendant J. B. Hunt Transport, Inc., appeals by leave granted from the trial court’s order granting plaintiff’s motion for partial summary disposition. We affirm.

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In 1996, defendant 1 employed Wesley Howard Crenshaw as a truckdriver. On June 17, 1996, Crenshaw parked a tractor-trailer owned by defendant on the north shoulder of westbound 1-96 near the Creyts Road exit in Eaton County. At approximately 2:00 P.M. that day, the decedent was driving an automobile west on 1-96, approaching the parked truck. Shortly before it would have passed the truck, the decedent’s vehicle left…