ROBINSON v. HOWARD UNIVERSITY

No. 81-1450.

455 A.2d 1363 (1983)

Dorothy ROBINSON, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rosa L. Walls, Appellant, v. HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 26, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Claxton, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Hugh E. Donovan, Silver Spring, Md., for appellee H.W. Williams.

John Jude O'Donnell, Washington, D.C., for appellee D.H. Pendergrast.

John F. Mahoney, Jr., Washington, D.C., for appellee Howard University.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KERN and TERRY, Associate Judges.


KERN, Associate Judge:

Appellant Dorothy L. Robinson, personal representative for the estate of Rosa L. Walls, challenges the propriety of the trial court's assessment of certain costs against her following two and one-half days of trial which ended in a mistrial.

In April 1979, appellant filed this action in behalf of the Walls estate and was granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis by an order of the court waiving payment by her of "all court costs...

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