Response to interrogatories
Case No. LC48070
By
Melinda
Pillsbury-Fostter
Plaintiff
Section 5. Interrogatories
1.0 identiy of Persons Answering These Interrogatories
1.1 Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
2028 Anacapa
Street
Santa Barbara,
CA 93105
(805) 569-0421
Myself
alone.
2.0
2.1
(a) Melinda
Pillsbury-Foster
(b & c) Mary
Linda (Melinda) Pillsbury
October 26,
1949 - September 7, 1967
Mary Linda
(Melinda) Pillsbury Barteaux
September
7, 1967 - May 1, 1972
Melinda
Pillsbury Kellett
May 1, 1972
- Spring 1975
Melinda
Pillsbury-Foster
Spring 1975
- Present
2.2 Santa Monica Hospital, October 26, 1948
2.3 Driver’s Lisence
(a)
California
(b)
R0678017 Auto
(c) 1966
(d) must
wear corrective lenses
2.4 I have never had anyother lisence
2.5 Residence
(a) 2028
Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(b) same
2.6
(a) 2028
Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(b) writer,
president of AC Pillsbury Foundation, president of Women’s Institute for Individual and
Political Justice. Writing, overseeing
research, organizing.
2.7
(a) St.
Stephens Preparatory School, Rome, Italy 1964 - 1965
Venice High School, Los Angeles, CA
Venice Blvd. 1965 - 1967
Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica,
CA 1967 - 1969
Two
years of college
2.8 I have never been
convicted of any felony or misdemeanor.
I have a clean driving record.
2.9 I speak English
with ease
2.10 I read and write English with ease.
2.11 Yes, I was and
am conservator for my son, Arthur Edward Foster.
(a) 2028
Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 (805) 569-5575
(b) To
oversee his activities, care for him, pay his bills, and arrange for his
various therapies.
2.12 Yes, my son, Arthur, had suffered a brain injury from a motorcycle
acident he had survived in September and
was despondent.
2.13 No. None
4.0 Insurance
At the time
of the incident I had the following insurance:
(a) Aetna Health Insurance.P.O. Box 12340, Fresno, CA 93765
Melinda
Pillsbury-Foster
Craig
Franklin
Dawn
Pillsbury
Justin
Foster
Arthur
Foster
At the time of the incident
CraigFranklin was the insured member. Since then I have exercised my cobra
rights and am now the insured member. There is no dispute of which
I am aware.
4.2 I’ m not sure what this means. I have a life insurance policy on myself,
home insurance and auto insurance. That is all.
6.0
6.1 I have suffered extreem stress which may have
contributed to the arrythmea I was experiencing. I have migraines, to which this may have
contributed.
6.2 None
6.3 I still
have migraines. The arrythmea is presently being controlled by hormone therapy.
6.4 Yes.
Dr. Richard Danson, Santa Barbara, CA.
For migraines.
6.5
Yes. Vicadine with codeine. I have been
taking it for several months.
6.6 Yes, but I am not claiming them for
reimbursement.
6.7 I am incapacitated because of the migraines
and cannot work.
7.0 Property Damage
No..
8.0 Loss of earning capacity
8.1 Yes
8.2 I am a
writer. I have been writing for many
years.
8.3 I was not working for monetary compensation when the
incident occured. I could not because I was my son’s conservator and
because of my health.
8.4 My income is from spousal support solely.
8.5 I cannot seek employment. I am needed at home for Arthur and I have
migraines.
8.6 I have now sought
employment because of my migraines.
8.7 I was in the
process ofwriting a book when the incident took place. I do not know how to calculate my losses.
8.8 Yes, I will. I cannot seek employment because of the
migraines andbecause I need to be
here to act as Arthur’s caretaker.
Iestimate that it wil take two
years to have Arthur able
to live on his own without my day to day oversight.
9.0
9.1 Yes, I had
tospend money for medical expenses for Arthur.
I will have my bookkeeper send
long a read out of those figures.
9.2 (see bookkeepers
readout)
10.0
10.1 The
migraines began to worsen after the incident.
I had never sought medical care
for migraines before then.
10.2 I was
havingtrouble with my eyes, I had not sought medical care. I had problems with my heart, I had been
hospitalized for a suspected heart attack.
10.3
No.
11.0 Other Claims and previous claims
11.1 No.
11.2 No
12.0 All of my
infirmation regarding the actual incident is heresay from three cources. The first
two sources, Ronald Edward Foster and Beverly Foster are both very . unreliable. The third source is my son, Arthur Edward
Foster. His contact information is stated in this
document. Ronald and Beverly’s contact
information is readily
available through court documents.
12.2 No.
12.3 No
12.4 No
12.5 No
12.6 Yes, Ronald Foster or Beverly Foster called the
ambulance and police. A report was made.
12.7 Yes,I went by
and looked at the grass where Arthur shot himself several days later.
13.0 Surveillance
13.1 No.
13.2 No
14.0 Statutory or Regulatory Violations
14.1 Yes. Ronald Edward Foster, informed of the potential in
Arthur for a suicide attempt recklessly
ignored the risk, allowing Arthur to go to the mall unaccompanied on Saturday, where Arthur states he tried
to throw himself off the parking structure.
Prevented by the presence of
security, he returned to the house in Reseda.
Left alone there on Sunday morning while Ronald Edward
Foster and Beverly Foster went to get
breakfast at Taco Bell at around 11:30am, Arthur went to get the gun, which was kept loaded, according to him, by
their bed, and went into the back yard and
shot himself though the mouth into his brain.
I
did not know that Ron kept guns in the house.
Ronald
and Beverly had both been informed of the risk and had promised
not to
allow Arthur out of their sight for his entire visit. They had each read a suicide note Arthur had sent the previous week. I was informed of this by Beverly shortly after the incident.
But
I had called on the previous weekend from Texas, where I was at a conference with Arthur’s sisters, Dawn and
Ayn, because Justin had found a suicide
note Arthur had left there. I was called
my the old friend, Vicky Emerling, who
was stayingwith the boys in my absense and informed of the note. Arthur was
then in Reseda with Ron and Beverly. In
the call I made immediately thereafter I asked Ron to check on Arthur. I asked him to keep him on Sunday night so that I would be there when
he arrived home.
When
Arthur returned home I took him to a medical doctor, Dr. Richard Danson.
He had taken a corrosive substance, Draino, I think. He had tests to ascertain that no damage had been
done. On Wednesday I took him to a
therapist, Dr. Marquart, who talked
to him about his depression. On Friday
Arthur went to his regular
rehabilitation visits at the OutPatient Rehabilitation of Santa Barbara. They
called me to tell me that they thought he was a potential danger to
himself. I called Dr. Danson to arrange to get him in a treatment
program on Monday.
I
informed Ron of each of these developments as they took place. I told him
on Friday I was reluctant to allow Arthur to come because of the risk if he was
not watched. Ron then guaranteed he would keep a 24 hour
watch on Arthur. I reluctantly agreed to allow him to go to Los
Angeles.
They,
Ron and Beverly, were to put him back on
the bus on Sunday afternoon. I was to pick him up at the terminal in Santa
Barbara. Each of these points was
discussed within the hearing of Arthur who remembers the discussion which took place over the phone while he
and I were in the breakfast nook in Santa Barbara
Friday afternoon. Each point was
further discussed with Dawn, 24 then
and living at home. Dawn remembers
discussing these points with Beverly.
14.2 No.
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