Antonio Cordova, Plaintiffs and Appellants v. City of Los Angeles, Defendant and Respondent

Summary

The court held that liability under section 835 does not require a plaintiff to prove that a dangerous condition of public property caused the third party conduct that precipitated an accident. It is enough to show that the condition proximately caused the plaintiff's injury and created a reasonably foreseeable risk of that kind of injury. The court also held that section 835 does not categorically bar liability when the public-property condition exacerbates injuries initially caused by a third party, and it reversed and remanded for further proceedings.