Two Platte County women received a $375,000 combined settlement in two separate tri-and-fall incidents. Local attorney John Cady, with Cady & Campbell Law Offices in Platte City, represented Mary Smith and her friend and neighbor Aleta King, both from Edgerton. Smith and King lived at WWB Villa Apartments, a retirement village in Edgerton that houses low income seniors and disabled persons, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. On Jan. 31, 2007, both women were walking towards Smith’s mailbox when Smith slipped on a patch of ice that fresh snow had obscured. She fell and broke her right wrist, requiring surgery that resulted in limited use of her hand. Then on Sept. 10,2009, King tripped and fell after catching her foot on a raised slab of sidewalk outside her front door.
Monday morning was a special event for Dan Demory with the opening of his State Farm Insurance Agency at its new location at 420 Branch Street in Platte City. Demory recently renovated a former bank building into an office to support the local insurance agency.
On a split vote, the Platte City Board of Aldermen approved a somewhat controversial renewal of the contract between the city and the Platte City Chamber of Commerce. Platte City will pay the chamber $10,000 “to support economic development efforts during the period of July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012.”
