Ewell v. United States

BALDOCK, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant-appellee, the Bureau of Land Management of the United States Department of Interior. Plaintiff brought this action against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-80. The plaintiff, Tracy Ewell, was injured on federal land when the motorcycle on which she was a passenger was driven off an embankment. The injury occurred at the West Mountain Gravel Pit, which is located west of Payson, Utah, on land administered *248by…