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DIXON v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2649.

168 A.2d 905 (1961)

Marietta M. DIXON, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 30, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis P. Mitchell, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

H. Thomas Sisk, 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 HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant sustained bodily injury when she allegedly tripped over a hole in a public street. She brought this suit for damages, charging the District with negligent maintenance of the roadway. Government motions for directed verdict made at the end of the plaintiff's case and later at the close of all the evidence were denied. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff. The trial court, however, without stating its reasons therefor...

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