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NORTON & COMPANY, INC. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2775.

173 A.2d 482 (1961)

NORTON & COMPANY, Inc., a corporation, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a municipal corporation, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided August 28, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Georges Serabian, Washington, D. C., with whom South Trimble, III, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Ted D. Kuemmerling, 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 SMITH, Chief Judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, sitting by designation.

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Norton & Company, Inc., sued the District of Columbia for damages resulting from a collision of its tractor-trailer with an overhanging tree limb on Wisconsin Avenue. Judgment was for the District, and Norton takes this appeal.

The tractor-trailer, operated by a Norton employee named Phillips, was traveling north on Wisconsin Avenue. At the intersection of Wisconsin and Western Avenues Phillips stopped the vehicle for a red light...

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