OSO — A fourth lawsuit related to the March 22 mudslide was filed Monday on behalf of a mother whose 14-year-old son was killed, and another woman who was injured.
Randi Green’s son, Denver Harris, was a Darrington Middle School student at home on Steelhead Drive when the landslide hit. The suit lists his mother under a different last name, Lester. The other plaintiff, Robin Youngblood, survived when a wall of debris slammed into her house on Highway 530.
Damage from the slide stretched for more than a mile, resulting in 43 deaths and the destruction of about 40 homes.
As with other mudslide lawsuits, this one names the state Department of Natural Resources, Snohomish County and Grandy Lake Forest Associates, a Mount Vernon company that logged an area atop of the hillside that gave way. It alleges improper logging activities, failure to heed geologists’ warnings about the hillside’s instability, and failure to take adequate measures after a large slide occurred in the same spot in 2006.
The suit was filed in King County Superior Court by three Tacoma attorneys, Darrell and Loren Cochran and Kevin Hastings.
Other slide-related lawsuits were filed in July, October and last week.
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