September 26, 2009 in Washington Voices

Water rights dust-up

Man, 93, says he was pushed, breaking his hip
John Craig johnc@spokesman.com, (509) 927-2165
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A 93-year-old Newman Lake man is in convalescent care with a broken hip from an alleged confrontation with a visitor to his neighbor over century-old water rights.

The injured man, Gerald Lippincott, said Jeff Sharp pushed him down on Aug. 28; Sharp said Lippincott fell accidentally while trying to hit him.

“He’s 93 years old and I’m 31,” Sharp said. “I don’t need to push old men.”

But Lippincott said Sharp’s claim that he took a swing at the younger man is “all baloney.”

“I never struck, and I wasn’t going to strike,” he said.

Three eyewitnesses, all friends of …

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