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PHILLIPS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 96-CV-1801.

714 A.2d 768 (1998)

Jewel PHILLIPS, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick T. Hand, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Sheila Kaplan, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Jo Anne Robinson, Principal Deputy Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before SCHWELB and FARRELL, Associate Judges, and MACK, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

The court-appointed Special Administrator of the estate of a prisoner who hanged himself at the District of Columbia Jail brought this wrongful death and survival action against the District of Columbia, alleging that the decedent's death was proximately caused by negligence on the part of the District's agents and employees. The case was tried in the Superior Court before a judge and jury. At the conclusion of the plaintiff's case-in-chief...

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