Rexroad v. City of Springfield

How courts have described this case

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• noting that in Sylvester, the plaintiff tripped on a “misplaced, concrete car stop”
• holding summary judgment was inappropriate where the record contained at least “some evidence” that students could become distracted and fail to avoid the otherwise open and obvious risk of a hole in a school parking lot
• appearing to assume without deciding that hazard was open and obvious, but finding the distraction exception applied
• the plaintiff student fell in a hole because he was distracted by carrying a football helmet the coach of the defendant school had ordered him to bring
• \Defendants could have guarded against the injury [caused by an open and obvious condition] simply by leaving the barricades in place.\
• “Defendants could have guarded against the injury [caused by an open and obvious condition] simply by leaving the barricades in place.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).