Ujifusa v. National Housewares, Inc.

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment on a jury verdict for plaintiff in an action for personal injury damage while riding on a snowmobile. Affirmed with costs to plaintiff.

Plaintiff, commercial photographer, age 44, was employed to take pictures of a snowmobile to advertise defendant’s camera equipment. The situs was a ski resort near Salt Lake City. Defendant’s vice-president drove the vehicle and plaintiff sat tandem immediately behind him. In ascending a hill, the vehicle was driven around a man-made snowbank or hump. In descending, the driver, instead of bypassing the hump, drove over…