Webster v. Culbertson

MOELLER, Justice.

JURISDICTION

Plaintiff Joe Webster was severely injured in 1984 while riding his horse on the defendant-landowner’s property. 1 He ran into a fence of unmarked barb wire which defendant had strung across the wash at her property line. Plaintiff sued for personal injuries, and the defendant defended on the ground that plaintiff was a trespasser to whom she owed only the duty of refraining from willful or wanton injury.

In the trial court, the defendant moved for summary judgment. In response, plaintiff claimed that there was sufficient evidence of willful or wanton injury to…