Stewart v. Bramhall

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[i]f a public road ... is so dangerous by reason of its proximity to a precipice that common prudence requires extra precaution, in order to secure safety to travelers, the [government party] is bound to use such precaution and the omission to do so is negligence.”
• duty not confined to maintaining the bed of the road but extends to erection of barriers and other devices for guarding unsafe places along the road
• duty not confined to maintaining the bed of the road but extends to erection of barriers and other devices for guarding unsafe places along the road
• duty not confined to maintaining the bed of the road but extends to erection of barriers and other devices for guarding unsafe places along the road

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).