By Scott Marshall
North County Times
Copyright 2007 North County Times
VISTA, Calif. — A Superior Court jury ruled Friday that the city of San Marcos must pay roughly $236,000 to the family of a dead San Marcos man whose body paramedics returned to his locked home as the family went to the hospital, the family’s attorney said.
The city’s attorney could not be reached Friday afternoon for comment.
Natalie Collet and the woman her attorney described in court as her former “life partner,” Denise Dougherty, filed a lawsuit in August 2005 against the city of San Marcos, the county and their employees in connection with an Oct. 6, 2004, incident involving Collet’s stepfather, Kenneth Collet, 58.
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