· 9/14/1982
City of St. Petersburg v. Collom
Citations
- 419 So. 2d 1082
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- city could be liable for construction of storm sewer drainage ditch without providing bars, screen, or other protective device over opening of sewer pipe
- liability may be imposed when a governmental entity \creates a known dangerous condition\ not readily apparent to persons who could be injured by the condition and fails to warn of such condition
- governmental entity has a duty to warn of or correct dangerous conditions that the entity created, and knew to be dangerous, and which were not readily apparent to those persons who might sustain injury as a result of them
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Judges: Overton
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