Legal Opinion
Grant v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 20, 1991No. 88-752PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
This appeal arises out of the deaths of two young children in a fire in a public housing building owned by the District. A survival action was brought against the District on the theory of negligence with respect to the fire alarm system in the complex. In a general verdict, 1 the jury found for the District and against the plaintiff, the personal representative of the estates of the two children.
■The District’s defense was based in part on the assertion that, notwithstanding any fault of the District, the negligence of the parents was a superseding cause of the…
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- District of Columbia v. MitchellDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987
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