By David Hedges, Publisher
The Times Record/Roane County Reporter
A collision in downtown Spencer
two years ago took the life of a
woman's unborn son. according to
a wrongful death suit filed in Roane
Circuit Court.
Among other things, the suit
seeks reimbursement for the loss of
income the childwould have earned
during his lifetime.
The suit filed by Samuel Hrko of
the Segal Law firm in Charleston involves
an accident on April 19,2013.
The suit claims Robert Lee Barr
of Church Street was pulling out of
the Go-Mart parking lot just after 4
p.m. when his vehicle struck a vehicle
traveling east on U.S. 33 driven by Hrko's client, Shara C. Shamblin.
It says Barr failed to yield to the
other vehicle and that Shamblin
sustained physical injuries that led
to the death ofher unborn son.
Shamblin was recently appointed
by the Roane County Commission
to serve as administratrix of the
estate of her son, identified in the
suit as "infant boy Shamblin."
In addition to reimbursement of
lost income from the unborn child,
the lawsuit seeks compensation for
medical bills, both past and present,
emotional distress and pain and suffering and also requests punitive
damages.
Barr will have 20 days after he
is served to file a response with the court to the allegations.
The case has been assigned to Judge Tom Evans. | 
