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LEAS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2062.

135 A.2d 462 (1957)

Walter A. LEAS, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided October 30, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. McNeill, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

George H. Clark, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellee filed this suit for damages which resulted from a collision between one of its fire trucks and appellant's vehicle. Appellant in his answer denied the charge of negligence and filed a counterclaim for the damages to his automobile, alleging negligence on the part of the driver of the fire truck. Appellee resisted the counterclaim on the ground that it was not negligent and further that at the time it was engaged in a governmental function...

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