QUIGLEY'S PHARMACY, INC. v. BEEBE

No. 4757.

261 A.2d 242 (1970)

QUIGLEY'S PHARMACY, INC., a corporation, Appellant, v. Mary A. BEEBE, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Attridge, Edwin A. Sheridan, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Irwin G. Meiselman, Joseph D. Bulman, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before KELLY, GALLAGHER and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This appeal presents the issue whether there is a duty to safely maintain the outer limits of adjacent public-owned space in front of a private business in the absence of evidence of substantial special use of that area and in the face of a showing of extensive use by the general public. A jury returned a $2,000 verdict against appellant and this appeal followed.

Appellee fell as a result of catching her heel in a hole at the outer...

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