City of Denton v. Rachel Paper

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that sunken area in street, which “varied from two inches to a few inches more at its deepest point,” was not a special defect
• concluding that an allegedly defective depression in the street did not physically impair the ability to travel on the street
• holding that a two-inch to five-inch difference in a street’s elevation was not a special defect and stating that the allegedly defective depression in the street was nothing like the special defect found to exist in Eaton
• holding that a two to “a few inches more” depression in the road was not a special defect and noting that “the photographs indicate that the sunken area could have been avoided without leaving the roadway or entering the opposing lane.”
• noting that the city had received no complaints about a sunken roadway until the plaintiff’s accident
• explaining that Act generally limits governmental unit’s potential liability for premises-liability damages by classifying user of government real property as licensee rather than invitee except when premises claim involves special defect

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).