RUSTIN v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Nos. 84-138, 84-261.

491 A.2d 496 (1985)

Sedessa RUSTIN and Felicia Shade Tate, Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA and Washington Patrol Services, Inc., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 18, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Perry, Bethesda, Md., with whom Rotraud M. Perry, Bethesda, Md., was on briefs, for appellants.

Edward E. Schwab, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., with whom Inez Smith Reid, Corp. Counsel, John H. Suda, Principal Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for the District of Columbia.

Ronald G. Guziak, Washington, D.C., for Washington Patrol Services, Inc.

Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, and NEBEKER and FERREN, Associate Judges.


PRYOR, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court granting the motions of appellees, the District of Columbia and the Washington Patrol Services, Inc. (hereinafter WPS), for summary judgment, and dismissing the claims of appellants, Sedessa Rustin and Felicia Shade Tate. We affirm.

Factual Background

On October 7, 1980, James Kenneth Tate was shot and killed by Barthaniel L. Robinson.1 At the...

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