Opinion ID: 1787959
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Heading: City's Negligence Under Specialized Standard of Care for Owners or Occupiers

Text: To show that the City is liable for her injuries, Aguallo needed to show that (1) the City either created the condition, knew of the condition, or by the exercise of reasonable care would have discovered the condition; (2) the City should have realized the condition involved an unreasonable risk of harm to Aguallo; (3) the City should have expected that a lawful visitor such as Aguallo either (a) would not discover or realize the danger or (b) would fail to protect herself against the danger; (4) the City failed to use reasonable care to protect Aguallo against the danger; and (5) the condition was a proximate cause of damage to Aguallo. Because the trial court was relying on the Court of Appeals' decision in Herrera v. Fleming Cos., 10 Neb.App. 987, 641 N.W.2d 417 (2002), it did not consider the first three of these elements. The City asks us to determine as a matter of law that Aguallo failed to prove these three elements.