HAYNESWORTH v. D.H. STEVENS CO.

No. 92-CV-601.

645 A.2d 1095 (1994)

William HAYNESWORTH, Appellant, v. D.H. STEVENS COMPANY, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 8, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc Fiedler, with whom William P. Lightfoot, Washington, DC, was on the brief, for appellant.

Mary Beth McCormick, Rockville, MD, for appellee.

Before FERREN and KING, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.


PRYOR, Senior Judge:

In a negligence action involving a pedestrian who slipped and fell on a patch of ice in an alley adjacent to an apartment building, a claim was brought against a plumbing company whose employee, five days before the accident, repaired a broken pipe which had leaked water from the apartment building into the alley. The trial court directed a verdict in favor of the defendant plumbing company. Appealing from this ruling, the pedestrian contends...

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