Pierce v. CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE

How courts have described this case

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• holding the defect was not slight or trivial where plaintiff caught his foot under a metal plate covering a drain and the metal plate was raised seven or eight inches above the concrete walls of the drain
• holding the defect was not slight or trivial where plaintiff caught his foot under a metal plate covering a drain and the metal plate was raised seven or eight inches above the concrete walls of the drain
• “[A] municipality has a duty to maintain streets, sidewalks, and footways, and the areas contiguous to them, in a reasonably safe condition.”
• streets, sidewalks, footways and contiguous areas

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).