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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. JONES

No. 5126.

265 A.2d 594 (1970)

The DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Marie S. JONES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 22, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Charles T. Duncan, Corp. Counsel, Hubert B. Pair, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant.

James A. Willey, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before FICKLING and KERN, Associate Judges, and QUINN, Associate Judge, Retired.

FICKLING, Associate Judge.

One early morning in mid-January 1964, Mrs. Jones was standing on a snowy street corner waiting for a bus as she had done at this same corner every workday for 5 years. When the bus arrived, and as she approached it to board, she stepped on a manhole cover which slid off of the manhole. She fell partially into the manhole, injuring her leg.

Two photographs of the street corner taken 2 months...

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