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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. STEWART

No. 5632.

278 A.2d 117 (1971)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a municipal corporation, Appellant, v. Malvina STEWART, Administratrix of the Estate of Clifton C. Watson, deceased, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 11, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ted D. Kuemmerling, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Acting Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant.

Reginald B. Jackson, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and NEBEKER and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This is an appeal by the District of Columbia from an order granting summary judgment in favor of the administratrix of the estate of Clifton C. Watson, deceased, a former patient at St. Elizabeths Hospital. The government contends that the trial court erred in ruling that the District of Columbia was estopped from recovering the full cost of the decedent's care because an employee of the hospital purported to contract to accept a lesser...

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