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CHANDLER v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 13422.

404 A.2d 964 (1979)

Patricia Z. CHANDLER, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 2, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard I. Rosenberg, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Louis P. Robbins, Acting Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., at the time the brief was filed, with whom Richard W. Barton, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN, GALLAGHER and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge:

Appellant, administratrix and legal representative of her two deceased children, brought an action against the District of Columbia under the survival and wrongful death statutes.1 The children had been killed by smoke inhalation when a fire broke out in their home on September 8, 1976.

Prior to that time the District, for financial reasons, had instituted a program closing a number of fire stations on a...

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