CHARLESTON - A Jackson County woman has filed a suit against her daughter's landlord, after she injured her hand while opening a window at her daughter's apartment.
Penny Ratliff filed a suit March 18 in Kanawha Circuit Court against David Brasseur.
According to the suit, Ratliff was a visitor in her daughter's apartment on March 23, 2006. Her daughter, Ashley White, lived at 1101 Main Avenue, St. Albans, in a building owned by Brasseur.
While visiting, Ratliff tried to open a window, but the window was improperly maintained and fell on her hand, causing an injury to her hand.
Ratliff claims she received other physical and physiological damages and seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
Attorney Harold S. Albertson Jr. is representing Ratliff. The case has been assigned to Judge Louis Bloom.
Kanawha Circuit Court case number 08-C-533
Woman sues daughter's landlord for hand injury
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