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Washington DOC Pays $78,150 in Bus Slip and Fall

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Transportation, Premises Liability, Visiting. Location: Washington.

On October 23, 1992 Cheryl Turner Jennings, a free citizen of the State of Washington visiting a prisoner, fractured her left ankle while attempting to exit a bus owned by the State of Washington and the Department of Corrections. Jennings, while exiting the bus at the parking lot area for …

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