California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Perry v. City of Santa Monica, 130 Cal.App.2d 370, 279 P.2d 92 (Cal. App. 1955):
The injuries must result from the dangerous or defective condition of public property. What is included in the term 'property' was exhaustively considered by this court in Bady v. Detwiler, 127 Cal.App.2d 321, 273 P.2d 941. In all of the cases cited relative to the question, the property was in existence at the time of the accident or had been in existence, and liability was incurred by the local agency because either the property was in a dangerous or defective condition or it was not maintained or replaced after it once had been in existence.
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