Legal Opinion
Haynesworth v. D.H. Stevens Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 8, 1994No. 92-CV-601PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Senior Judge:
In a negligence action involving a pedestrian who slipped and fell on a patch of ice in an alley adjacent to an apartment building, a claim was brought against a plumbing company whose employee, five days before the accident, repaired a broken pipe which had leaked water from the apartment building into the alley. The trial court directed a verdict in favor of the defendant plumbing company. Appealing from this ruling, the pedestrian contends the plumber was negligent in failing to notify the management company that water which had escaped from the broken pipe continued to…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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