In January 2005, Carriel Louah, 25, traveled to Darlington, Wisconsin, to wish her mother a happy birthday. After spending the night at her mother and step-father's house, the next morning she slipped in their driveway, breaking her ankle and injuring her leg.
Louah's mother, Wendi Reichling, wrote her a letter saying that she and her husband "should have fixed that damn (gutter) years ago. We have learned we have to take better care of our sidewalks."
Now Louah is using the same letter as ammunition in a lawsuit, arguing that her parents should be held liable for damages for maintaining "an unnatural accumulation of ice" on their driveway. She alleges that the gutter of their house was defective and they should pay her more than $75,000 in damages.
A federal judge has refused to throw out the lawsuit, setting up a potential mother-daughter courtroom showdown at a trial scheduled for November.
Sounds like a pretty crappy daughter. Why would you sue your own parents for her own stupidity? She should watch where she was going. I myself just fell today on ice outside of my bank. But I am not suing them. People are so sue happy these days.