Pinheiro v. Board of Education

The named plaintiff and the intervening plaintiff, the town of West Hartford,1 appeal from the decision of the trial court granting the defendants’2 motions for summary judgment in this negligence action.3 This appeal presents the issue of whether a tractor, claimed to have been operated negligently in the course of the plaintiff’s employment by one of the plaintiff’s fellow employees, is a “motor vehicle” and thus falls within an exception to the general bar against actions based on the negligence of a fellow employee created by General Statutes § 31-293a.4 Because we *265agree with the trial…