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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. HAMPTON

No. 90-CV-1148.

666 A.2d 30 (1995)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Debra Ali HAMPTON, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 29, 1995.

As Amended December 4, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward E. Schwab, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom John Payton, Corporation Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellant.

H. Vincent McKnight, Jr., with whom Karl N. Marshall, Washington, DC, was on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN, TERRY, and KING, Associate Judges.

TERRY, Associate Judge:

In this negligence case the District of Columbia appeals from the denial of its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. Appellee, Debra Ali Hampton, is the mother of Mykeeda Hampton, a two-year-old girl who died while in the care of her foster mother, Geraldine Stevenson. In August 1987 Mrs. Stevenson left Mykeeda at home with her two sons, aged fifteen and twelve, for over ten hours while she ran several errands, and during that time...

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