JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that the city of Jackson doesn't have to pay a $400,000 judgment from a 2007 crash that killed an elderly woman and injured her two daughters when their vehicle was hit by a motorist fleeing a Raymond police officer.
The Supreme Court reversed a special judge's ruling that found Jackson police partly to blame for the crash.
The Clarion-Ledger reports (http://bit.ly/oEYmC6 ) last week's ruling is from the city's appeal of Special Hinds County Circuit Judge William Coleman's order in 2009 that the city pay $400,000 in the crash that killed Alice Faye Clausell.
The 69-year-old Clausell of Moss Point was a passenger in a car struck by Alice Marie Wilson, a Utica woman being pursued by police, on April 21, 2007.
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Information from: The Clarion-Ledger, http://www.clarionledger.com