Robinson v. Lindsay

Defendants appeal from an order granting a new trial after a jury verdict in favor of the defendants.

Plaintiff Kelly Robinson was 11 years old at the time of a snowmobile accident. She had cajoled her family into allowing her to join the Lindsay family and the Anderson family on a snowmobile outing in the mountains. Billy Anderson's mother had allowed him to operate Mrs. Lindsay's snowmobile; Mr. Anderson and Mr. Lindsay were off on other snowmobiles somewhere in the mountains. The mothers knew Billy was going to pull other children on an inner tube attached to the snowmobile by a rope and…