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WESTERN U. TELEGRAPH CO. v. MASSMAN CONST. CO.

No. 13821.

402 A.2d 1275 (1979)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Appellant, v. MASSMAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY and Fred J. Early, Jr., Company, Inc., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin W. Carmody, Washington, D. C., for appellant. Michaela M. Twomey, Washington, D. C., also filed an appearance for appellant.

J. Joseph Barse, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KERN and HARRIS, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge:

Appellant Western Union seeks reversal of the trial court's ruling that its claim against appellees for recovery of damages is grounded in tort, not contract, and therefore must be dismissed as untimely filed under the applicable statute of limitations, D.C.Code 1973, § 12-301(3), which commenced in its view to run from the date of damage to appellant's facilities. The court, in dismissing the complaint, rejected appellant's theory that...

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