GIBBS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2937.

180 A.2d 891 (1962)

Robert Lewis GIBBS, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a municipal corporation, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Schroeder, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Ted D. Kuemmerling, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Prin. Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, QUINN, Associate Judge, and MYERS, Associate Judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, sitting by designation.


MYERS, Associate Judge.

Appellant seeks reversal of judgment on jury verdicts against him in favor of the District of Columbia for damages to a police vehicle and upon his counterclaim for damages to his automobile in a collision between the two vehicles in question.

It clearly appears from the record that the trial judge, in granting prayers for instructions to the jury and in his subsequent charge to the jury, retroactively...

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