Kime v. Hobbs

Plaintiff-appellant, Joan Kime, was seriously injured in a collision between the vehicle in which she was a passenger and a tractor-livestock trailer unit driven by Edward F. Yelli. Yelli owned the truck-tractor, and defendant-appellee, William A. Hobbs, a Holt County farmer-rancher, owned the livestock trailer. At the time of the accident, Yelli was hauling cattle for Hobbs. The district court entered summary judgment in favor of Hobbs, finding that there were no questions of material fact at issue, that Yelli was an independent contractor and not an agent of Hobbs, that Yelli was not…