City of Dallas v. Thompson

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “without evidence showing how long the alleged [defect] had existed, the proximity of the employees is no evidence of actual knowledge”
• concluding plaintiff failed to present any evidence of city’s “actual knowledge of the protruding coverplate”
• finding that because the last similar incident was over three years ago this did not create actual notice
• stating that actual knowledge required for liability is of the dangerous condition at the time of the accident, not merely of the possibility that a dangerous condition can develop over time
• actual knowledge as required to establish premises liability “is of the dangerous condition at the time of the accident”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).