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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT v. ADAMS

Nos. 4852, 4853.

262 A.2d 105 (1970)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT, a municipal corporation, Appellant, v. Victoria ADAMS, a minor, by her next friend, Cora C. Adams, and Cora C. Adams, individually, Appellees. Victoria ADAMS, a minor, by her next friend, Cora C. Adams, and Cora C. Adams, Individually, Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT, a municipal corporation, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 17, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo N. Gorman, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Charles T. Duncan, Corporation Counsel, Hubert B. Pair, Principal Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Assistant Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant in No. 4852 and for appellee in No. 4853.

Earl H. Davis, Washington, D. C., for appellees in No. 4852 and for appellants in No. 4853.

Before NEBEKER, Associate Judge, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired), and QUINN (Associate Judge, Retired).

NEBEKER, Associate Judge.

These cases are an appeal and a cross-appeal from an award of damages for injuries suffered in a fall. The District of Columbia asserts that the claimed emotional injury was not shown to be traceable to the physical injury. Parrish v. United States, 126 U.S.App.D.C. 144, 375 F.2d 320 (1967). Accordingly, it argues that the expert testimony should have been stricken. In the cross-appeal, it is contended that...

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