Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Jones

Carley, Judge.

On January 13, 1982, Jeffrey Atcheson and three others, one of whom was appellee-plaintiff, decided to take advantage of a light snowfall for recreational purposes. They drove to a nearby parking lot in a pickup truck owned by Atcheson. The four individuals attached an inverted abandoned automobile hood to a forty-foot rope and tied the other end of the rope to the rear bumper of the pickup truck. Atcheson then drove the pickup truck while the others took turns sitting on the inverted hood and were towed around the snow and ice-covered parking lot. At first, appellee merely…