Legal Opinion
Victoria Marie Weston and Marie Beatrice Weston v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 15, 1996No. 95-7055, 95-7098PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge:
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (‘WMATA”) appeals from a judgment following a jury verdict finding that WMATA was negligent per se in the inspection and maintenance of its escalators, which proximately caused a hand injury to the two-year old plaintiff. WMATA makes seven claims of error on appeal, but we need only address its contention that the district court erred in instructing the jury on the meaning of § 902.5 of the D.C. Elevator Code. Although framed in terms of an error of interpretation, WMATA’s contention necessarily presents the court with…
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