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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. DAVIS

Nos. 11597, 11598.

386 A.2d 1195 (1978)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al., a Municipal Corporation, Appellants, v. Thomas E. DAVIS et al., Appellees. Thomas E. DAVIS et al., Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA et al., a Municipal Corporation, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 19, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom John R. Risher, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Louis P. Robbins, Principal Deputy Corp. Counsel and Richard W. Barton, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants in No. 11597 and appellees in No. 11598.

John Lodge Euler, Washington, D. C., with whom John Lewis Smith, III, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees in No. 11597 and appellants in No. 11598.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and HARRIS and MACK, Associate Judges.

MACK, Associate Judge:

We are faced with cross-appeals following two trials upon a complaint against the District of Columbia for personal injury growing out of the accidental discharge of a revolver of an off-duty policeman. We are asked to review the propriety of the trial court's action in 1) directing a verdict for the city on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to establish negligent police training and supervision on its part and in 2) refusing to direct...

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