SLIGH v. DOE

No. 78-1312.

596 F.2d 1169 (1979)

Estelle W. SLIGH, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. John DOE, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 19, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph H. Perry, Fairfax, Va., (Thomas Pace, Carr, Jordan, Coyne & Savits, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

Vincent Nappo, Washington, D. C., (Michael Branham, Vienna, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before WIDENER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.


DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff, a resident of the District of Columbia, a woman in her fifties employed by the government, was a passenger in the rear seat of an automobile which was negligently sideswiped in Virginia by a hit-and-run Cadillac occupied by four black males. She sustained injuries to her knees for which the jury awarded $13,500.1 The Cadillac stopped, but immediately drove away, and escaped pursuit. The Cadillac...

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