District of Columbia v. Chessin

GRONER, Associate Justice.

Appellee obtained a verdict and judgment in the Supreme Court of the District in the sum of $10,009 against appellant. (We shall hereafter speak of the parties as plaintiff and defendant.) Her declaration alleges that on the 7th of January, 1929, she was a passenger in an automobile then being driven at a lawful and proper rate of speed along Irving street northeast, in Washington. In passing over the intersection of Sixteenth street with Irving street, she claims to have sustained severe and permanent injury due to the presence of deep holes or depressions in the…