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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. FORSMAN

Nos. 88-455, 88-517.

580 A.2d 1314 (1990)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Edwin E. FORSMAN and Susan M. Forsman, Appellees. Edwin E. FORSMAN and Susan M. Forsman, Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 4, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin B. White, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Herbert O. Reid, Sr., Acting Corp. Counsel at the time the brief was filed, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Lutz Alexander Prager, Asst. Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant and cross-appellee.

Edwin E. Forsman and Susan M. Forsman, pro se, appellees and cross-appellants.

Before BELSON, TERRY and FARRELL, Associate Judges.

BELSON, Associate Judge:

The District of Columbia appeals a judgment of $41,500 in favor of the Forsmans entered following a bench trial. At issue was the District's alleged negligence in failing to require an adjacent landowner to obtain a demolition permit prior to commencing the inadequate underpinning work that caused the collapse of the Forsmans' residence. The Forsmans have filed a cross-appeal. The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the public duty doctrine...

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