PITTSBURGH – An Allegheny County woman taking her child trick-or-treating on Halloween last fall is suing a pair of Pittsburgh residents, at whose property an axe allegedly fell from a candy table and lacerated her right leg.
Larhon D. Buchanan filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on May 21 versus Mary Herbert and Rachel Kudrick, both of Pittsburgh.
Buchanan was accompanying her child for trick-or-treating on Oct. 31, 2019, when the pair came to a residence on the 900 block of Highview Street, the lawsuit says.
A dangerous condition was present at the residence in the form of an axe on the edge of the table where Halloween candy was being given out, it says.
When an individual distributing candy nudged the table, the axe was caused to fall from the table and strike Buchanan’s right lower leg, the suit says.
As a result, the plaintiff suffered a laceration, erythema, permanent scarring and muscle spasms to her right leg, a right leg injury, right leg weakness, a right ankle sprain and other physical and emotional injuries, the suit says.
For a count of negligence, the plaintiff is seeking damages in excess of the jurisdictional limits of compulsory arbitration, plus court costs, interest, such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and equitable and a trial by jury.
The plaintiff is represented by Amy Elizabeth Mathieu of Woomer & Talarico, in Pittsburgh.
The defendants have not yet secured legal counsel.
Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas case GD-20-005908
From the Pennsylvania Record: Reach Courts Reporter Nicholas Malfitano at nick.malfitano@therecordinc.com