Title: Payment in 4 Suits Against City OK'd by Council
Date: September 1, 1982
Section: NEWS
The Oklahoma City Council has approved the payment of $13,169.02 to settle four lawsuits filed against the city by five area residents.
The largest payment authorized by the council during Tuesday's meeting was $6,393.40 to Loretta Gunn, 2044 NE 30, to reimburse her for damage caused when sewage from a city sewer line backed up into her home on May 16 and May 19, 1982.In another case, the council voted to reimburse Monty M. Allery $3,488.27 for ambulance service, towing charges and body work on his car. Allery, 3717 College in Bethany, was injured and his car damaged when it was struck by a city Water Department truck with a stuck accelerator on June 27, 1982.
The truck had been in a city garage for accelerator-related problems twice in March and once in May, said Joe Chappell, director of the city's Public Services Division.
""Inattentive driving'' by a Water Department employee was cited as the cause of a June 25, 1982 accident involving a city vehicle and a parked truck owned by Curt L. Pointer, 2705 N Hudson. The council agreed to pay Pointer $1,219.60 for truck repairs and court costs.
Another accident, attributed to negligent driving on the part of city employee Larry Ramsey, will cost the city $2,067.75 to reimburse Marcia Harrison and Melvin Scroggins III, both of 3328 NE 12, for body work to their car and for an emergency room visit at Midwest City Hospital.
An Oklahoma City police officer cited Ramsey for failure to yield the right of way at a stop sign and for having no state driver's license after the city dump truck he was driving collided with Harrison's car on July 25 at NE 10 and Bryant, City Attorney Walter Powell said.
Section: NEWS
Copyright 1982, 1995 Oklahoma Publishing Company
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