Legal Opinion
CRAIG L. RUSSELL v. CALL/D, LLC
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 15, 2015No. 13-CV-1177PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Associate Judge:
In June 2012, appellant Craig Russell brought a lawsuit asserting “negligence— premises liability” and “strict liability/negligent failure to warn” claims against ap-pellee Call/D, LLC (“Call/D”), the owner of the apartment building where appellant was residing when he began to suffer the symptoms of Legionnaires’ disease, with which he was diagnosed in May 2011. Russell alleged in his Complaint and subsequent deposition that sewage back-ups in the apartment building and sewage-contaminated water that was allowed to stand in a vacant basement apartment, caused him to…
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