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Davison v. Snohomish County
Washington Supreme Court (1928) | 270 P. 422; 149 Wash. 109
TL;DR: Plaintiffs crashed their car off a county bridge and sued for negligence. The court found the county was not liable, holding that a municipality is not an insurer of safety and the alleged defects were too minor to constitute negligence as a matter of law.
Legal Significance: Establishes that a municipality's duty to maintain safe roads does not require it to construct barriers strong enough to restrain a moving automobile or to eliminate every minor, inconsequential defect that does not pose a danger to a person exercising ordinary care.