Vargo-Schaper Ex Rel. Schaper v. Weyerhaeuser Co.

BYE, Circuit Judge.

Betty Vargo-Schaper appeals the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment in favor of Weyerhaeuser Company (“Wey-erhaeuser”), on Vargo-Schaper’s negligence claim. Vargo-Schaper contends there was sufficient evidence of negligence to submit the case to a jury. We affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Weyerhaeuser.

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Mitchell Schaper was a truck driver for Fil-Mor Express, Inc. (Fil-Mor), a commercial carrier which provided services to Weyerhaeuser by transporting Weyer-haeuser’s cardboard-boxes from its manufacturing facility in White Bear Lake,…