Higgins v. City of Rockville

How courts have described this case

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• holding city liable when a pedestrian was injured by a hazard while walking from a city- maintained parking lot to a city-maintained athletic field along a path created by the city
• “a municipality has a ‘private proprietary obligation’ to maintain its streets, as well as the sidewalks, footways and the areas contiguous to them, in a reasonably safe condition”
• “Our case law has.. .regularly held that a municipality has a ‘private proprietary obligation’ to maintain its streets, as well as the sidewalks, footways and the areas contiguous to them, in a reasonably safe condition.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).