By Calvin Palmer
The family of a Connecticut woman savagely mauled by a pet chimpanzee last month has filed preliminary legal papers seeking $50 million in damages against owner.
Relatives of Charla Nash yesterday filed legal papers against Sandra Herold in the Superior Court in Stamford. The papers are a prelude to an expected lawsuit. They seek an accounting of Herold’s assets and an order that would prevent her from liquidating assets.
Nash is being treated at the Cleveland Clinic. The hospital says the 55-year-old woman lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage after the February 16 attack in Stamford.
The 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, was shot and killed by police.
Police are weighing whether to file criminal charges against Herold.
[Based on a report by the Associated Press.]
