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Granger v. MST Transp. LLC

A jury must determine whether the conduct of a third-party driver constituted a sole or concurring proximate cause of the collision between the plaintiffs' vehicle and the defendant's truck.

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Melanie Granger and Roderick Cody, individually and on behalf of their son, filed an action against MST Transportation, LLC “MST” and Eric A. Skrine, asserting claims of negligence and negligence per se arising out of injuries they and their son suffered in a collision between a vehicle Granger was driving and a tractor Skrine left on the roadway when it ran out of fuel.1 The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of MST and Skrine, concluding that Granger and Cody could not establish the proximate causation element of their claims. Granger and Cody now appeal, arguing that the trial court misapplied the intervening act doctrine and failed to consider that there may be more than one proximate cause of an injury. We conclude that proximate cause is an issue for the jury in this case and therefore reverse.

On appeal from a grant of a motion for summary judgment, we review the evidence de novo to determine whether a genuine issue of fact remains and whether the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. As it determines whether a genuine issue of material fact remains, a court is bound to view the evidence, and all reasonable inferences drawn therefrom, in the light most favorable to the nonmovant.

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