Stevens v. Salt Lake County

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

This appeal is from the granting of motions for summary judgment in favor of all three named defendants, Salt Lake County, Papanikolas Brothers Enterprises, and Leonard Ray Johnstone, and dismissing plaintiff’s complaint, in which he seeks recovery for injuries suffered in a motor vehicle collision.

On June 9, 1968, plaintiff, a 13-year-old boy, was riding his motorized “mini-bike” southward along a pathway in a vacant lot owned by defendant Papanikolas in the environs southeast of Salt Lake City. As he emerged through brush and weeds into an unimproved country road…