Carter v. Georgia Power Co.

How courts have described this case

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• city did not have notice that tree limb that fell was rotted when the limb appeared normal and there had been no record of any complaint or report about the tree
• “Just as the owner of a tree has no duty to check it constantly for non-visible rot ([cits.]), a city has no duty to check limbs overhanging a public road for non-visible rot.”
• city had no duty to check limbs overhanging public road for nonvisible rot

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).