Gibbs v. District of Columbia

MYERS, Associate Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of judgment on jury verdicts against him in favor of the District of Columbia for damages to a police vehicle and upon his counterclaim for damages to his automobile in a collision between the two vehicles in question.

It clearly appears from the record that the trial judge, in granting prayers for in structions to the jury and in his subsequent charge to the jury, retroactively applied provisions of the District of Columbia Employee Non-Liability Act 1 which provides, among other things, for waiver of governmental immunity and makes the District…