Bale v. District of Columbia

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

This was a suit growing out of an automobile collision. Appellant Bale was driving his automobile north on Bladensburg Road on his side of the highway. Margaret J. McDuffie, operating an automobile belonging to Hodge S. Lester, was driving south on the same Road. She veered to the wrong side of the road into the Bale car, damaging it and injuring Mrs. Bale, who was with her husband.

Mr. and Mrs. Bale sued Lester and Miss McDuffie and joined as defendant the District of Columbia alleging that the District had negligently permitted a depression to remain in the highway for an…