Legal Opinion
Henneke v. Sommer
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided May 13, 1981No. 80-227PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Associate Judge:
In this action arising from the purchase of a residence, appellants alleged, among other claims, breach of contract and breach of warranty. At the close of appellants’ case-in-chief, the trial judge, ruling that appellants had failed to present sufficient admissible evidence on the question of damages, 1 directed a verdict in favor of appel-lees.
In resolving this appeal we do not reach the issue of sufficiency since, in our view, the trial court abused its discretion in excluding certain evidence during the course of trial as a sanction for appellants’ failure to…
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- Dodson v. EvansDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1964
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