Slate v. Hogback Mountain Ski Lift, Inc.

The defendant, as its name indicates, is a ski lift operator. Its development lies along Route 9 between Brattleboro and Bennington. On the morning of January 29, 1958, the defendant’s employee, Brittain, was busy removing the snow, which had fallen during the night before, from the defendant’s parking area. For this purpose he was using a motor truck called a Dodge power wagon which, with the snow plow attached, was twenty feet in length. Brittain had plowed long enough to accumulate three large piles of snow which he had deposited along the westerly (generally southerly) shoulder of the…