The executor of a deceased woman’s estate has filed suit against the nursing home where he claims the woman fell, sustaining head injuries that led to her death.Charles D. Thomas claims Thelma V. Thomas was living at defendant Granite Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Dec. 15, 2011, when she fell while she was attempting to move. Because of her fall, Thelma Thomas suffered a subdural hematoma, which
UnsellSouthern Illinois University Edwardsville professor Curtis Smith alleges that Deborah Pontious, former wife of felon Gary Peel, defamed him after a relationship between them ended.Smith sued Pontious in Madison County on Oct. 3, over messages she allegedly sent to his sister in law and his supervisor at SIUE a year ago.Smith’s lawyers, Ed Unsell and Janel Freeman of East Alton, wrote that Pontious
MorminoA minor boy lost his teeth after he collided head-on with his peer while playing a game at school, his mother claims in recently filed court documents.Amanda Lane filed a lawsuit Sept. 18 in Madison County Circuit Court against East Alton Wood River Community High School District No. 14.In her complaint, Lane alleges her ninth-grade son, Hunter O’Brien, was participating in a gym class at East
DonohooDefendants in an I-270 multi-vehicle accident deny allegations in their answers to a Madison County lawsuit.Kathy Little and her husband Monte Little allege that Kathy Little was driving on I-270 in Chouteau on July 26, 2011, at the same time Omar Moumkine was driving a tractor trailer owned by ABF Freight System in the same direction. The Littles claim Moumkine caused a chain collision when
BeljanskiA man suffered severe and permanent injuries when a driver struck his vehicle, according to a recently filed lawsuit.Eric Stewart filed a lawsuit Aug. 21 in Madison County Circuit Court against Spencer J. Richards.In his complaint, Stewart claims he rode in a vehicle traveling on Franklin near its intersection with West McCarthur in East Alton on Sept. 7, 2011, when Richards, who was driving