Saturday, March 05, 2016

Free money!!-----Blind runner who stepped into hole in Portland park can sue city workers: Oregon Supreme Court

Blind runner who stepped into hole in Portland park can sue city workers: Oregon Supreme Court | OregonLive.com:
"A legally blind woman who was jogging through Portland's Tom McCall Waterfront Park when she stepped into a hole and badly injured herself has the legal authority to sue city workers, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled this week.
Emily Johnson is seeking $1 million in damages for injuries she sustained in July 2009 when she fell after stepping into an 18-inch-deep hole dug by a city maintenance worker who was trying to fix a broken sprinkler head the previous day.
The worker said he marked the hole with an orange cone, but the cone was gone when Johnson fell the next day..."

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