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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. COOPER

No. 80-206.

445 A.2d 652 (1982)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Mary C. COOPER, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 11, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Judith W. Rogers, Corp. Counsel, David P. Sutton, Deputy Corp. Counsel at the time the case was briefed, and Thomas A. Medford, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Stephen J. Cribari, Arlington, Va., filed the petition for rehearing en banc, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KELLY, KERN, NEBEKER, HARRIS, MACK, FERREN, PRYOR and BELSON, Associate Judges.

PRYOR, Associate Judge:

This matter arose out of a personal injury action instituted by appellee, Mary Cooper, against the District of Columbia as the result of a fall she sustained on a walkway located within the confines of the Lorton Reformatory. A jury trial was had at which appellee posited that her fall and resultant injuries were proximately caused by the District's negligent failure to maintain the walkway in a reasonably safe condition. Following the denial...

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