Court Sides with Property Owner After Football Accident

A Montana state court judge has granted a defendant property owner’s motion for a summary judgment in a case in which the plaintiff was playing sandlot football with a group of children and injured himself when he ran on to the defendant’s property.   Central to the judge’s ruling was his finding that the plaintiff, who was using the defendants' property for a recreational use, did not pay compensation for the use of the property, nor was there an allegation that the defendants’ act