State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Wyant

Plaintiff appeals from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment under GCR 1963, 117.2(2) in response to defendant Wyant’s motion.

The record discloses that on the evening of September 11, 1982, defendant Wyant was driving his farm tractor, to which two flat haywagons were attached, for a 4-H Club hayride. Defendants Messner were adult chaperones on the hayride. Ten-year-old Jennifer Proctor was riding on the left front corner of the second haywagon, and was seriously injured when she either jumped, fell, or was pushed off the wagon on which she was sitting and was run over by the wheels of…