113th Year, 49th Issue Thursday, July 18, 2002 Sparta, North Carolina

Reynolds lawsuit re-filed

Attorneys have re-filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the Jackie Dean Reynolds case, just two days before the deadline to do so. Reynolds, a 46-year-old Wilkes County resident, died June 21, 1998 at N.C. Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem after being in a coma for two months. He had been taken to Alleghany Memorial Hospital, then to the Alleghany County Jail, following a single-vehicle crash April 19, 1998 on U.S. 221 near Sparta.

Mark Reynolds, Jackie Reynolds' son and the administrator of his estate, had previously initiated two wrongful-death lawsuits in the case. The first, filed April 19, 1999, named the Alleghany County Sheriff's Department, the Town of Sparta, Allen Gerald Cornett, Michael Sawyers and Franklin Hash.

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