Legal Opinion
Haight v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided October 18, 2001No. 99-CV-123PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
FARRELL, Associate Judge.
In this suit for negligence, a jury found in the plaintiff-appellant’s favor and awarded $1,596,000 to the estate of sixteen-year-old Bobby Haight, who ultimately died after an automobile collision at the intersection of 26th Street and Benning Road, N.E. At the time, the intersection was controlled by a malfunctioning traffic signal light, and the jury found appellee, the District of Columbia, negligent for failing to maintain the light properly. 1 The trial judge rejected the District’s post-verdict challenge to the finding of negligence (the District has not…
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3Cited by1 opinion
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