Literally Tons of Quarters Used to Pay Court Order in Wrongful Death Case (+video)

Photo Credit: Sh4rp_iA strange payment rolled up to two local law offices in Southern Illinois. A truck carrying $150,000 in quarters. It was part of a protest by Roger Herrin about a court ruling in a wrongful death case.

Herrin’s son, Michael, died in a car accident in 2001. The 15-year-old was in a car with three other people when a truck failed to stop at an intersection. Since then, the families have been in a legal battle over how insurance money should be distributed.

Each one of the bags of quarters weighed 50 pounds and contained $1,000 worth of quarters. There were 150 of them on the truck…

This was Roger Herrin’s protest, 7,500 pounds of quarters, part of the amount he was ordered to pay by an appellate court in his son’s wrongful death case…

The legal battle between victims stems from the distribution of underinsured motorist coverage. The Jeep was covered up to $800,000. A judge ruled Herrin should get most of that money, $600,000, because his son died. The other victims appealed the decision and won.