Does Michigan or Ohio law apply to this case?

238 PART II Introduction to Law Bertram v. Norden, et al. and his snowmobile hit Bertram's leg. Bertram's tibia ani Four friends, John Bertram, Matt Norden, Scott Olson, and fibula were both fractured and protruded through his skin Tony Harvey, all residents of Ohio, traveled to the Upper Bertram underwent surgery to repair the broken bones, Peninsula of Michigan to go snowmobiling. On their first Bertram filed a lawsuit against Olson, Harvey, and Norden day of snowmobiling, after going about 135 miles, the lead in a trial court in Ohio, claiming that each of his friends snowmobiler, Olson, came to a stop sign on the snowmo- was liable to him for their negligent snowmobile operation bile trail where it intersected a private driveway. As Olson A Michigan statute specifically stated that snowmobilers approached the sign, he gave the customary hand signal and assumed the risks associated with snowmobiling. Ohio law stopped his snowmobile. Harvey, second in line, was going did not contain an assumption of the risk rule regarding too fast to stop, so Olson pulled his snowmobile to the right snowmobiling. The three defendants made a motion for summary judgment. side of the private driveway. Harvey, to avoid hitting Olson, pulled his snowmobile to the left and went over a 5- or 6-foot Question snow embankment. Bertram, third in line, going about 30 miles per hour, slammed on his brake, turned 45 degrees, 1. Does Michigan or Ohio law apply to this case? and slammed into Olson's snowmobile. Bertram was thrown Source: Bertram v. Norden, et al., 823 N.E.2d 478, 2004 Oh from his snowmobile. Norden, fourth in line, could not stop, App. Lexis 550 (Court of Appeals of Ohio, 2004)