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OTIS ELEVATOR CO. v. HENDERSON

No. 85-1126.

514 A.2d 784 (1986)

OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Appellant, v. Joanne M. HENDERSON, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 12, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan R. Siciliano, Upper Marlboro, Md., for appellant.

John C. Williams, Washington, D.C., for appellee.

Before BELSON, TERRY and ROGERS, Associate Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from a jury verdict finding appellant Otis Elevator Co. (Otis) liable to appellee Joanne M. Henderson for $135,000 for injuries sustained when she attempted to enter an elevator maintained by Otis. Otis contends that the trial court erred in submitting the case to the jury on a res ipsa loquitur theory and in granting a credit rather than a fifty percent reduction of the judgment as a result of a pretrial settlement between Henderson...

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