Clark v. Bridges, 75 A.3d 149 (2013)

Citation: Clark v. Bridges, 75 A.3d 149 (2013)
Parent Document: Clark v. Bridges, 75 A.3d 149 (2013)
Jurisdiction: DC (municipal)
Effective Date: 2013-08-22
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/5147069/clark-v-bridges/ ↗

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. At one point in his brief, the landlord asserts that the trial court’s exclusion of evidence related to repairs "knocked off [landlord’s] claim for damages in the property and all the evidence [landlord] would have pro*155duce[d] thereof.” After reviewing the pretrial hearings on October 3, 11, and November 21, 2011, we see no indication that the landlord pursued a claim for monetary damages, as distinguished from a judgment of possession based on breach of the lease due to failure to reimburse for repairs (a claim the trial court rejected after the landlord failed to produce evidence showing that he had asked the tenant for reimbursement). Rather, it appears the landlord conceded that damages were not at issue, and withdrew several exhibits related to damages during the November 21, 2011, hearing while also objecting to the admission of several tenant’s exhibits that went to "damages.” We see no reference to damages during the mid-trial discussion of the lease's holdover provision that the landlord cites in his brief. Accordingly, the landlord’s claim is unpreserved and we will not address it for the first time on appeal.

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