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HAIGHT v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 99-CV-123.

783 A.2d 590 (2001)

Sandra HAIGHT, Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF Bobby M. HAIGHT, Jr., Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 18, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. Parsons, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Donna M. Murasky, Senior Litigation Counsel, with whom Robert R. Rigsby, Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FARRELL and REID, Associate Judges, and NEWMAN, Senior Judge.

FARRELL, Associate Judge.

In this suit for negligence, a jury found in the plaintiff-appellant's favor and awarded $1,596,000 to the estate of sixteen-year-old Bobby Haight, who ultimately died after an automobile collision at the intersection of 26th Street and Benning Road, N.E. At the time, the intersection was controlled by a malfunctioning traffic signal light, and the jury found appellee, the District of Columbia, negligent...

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