Fell On City Property And Being Told They Didn't Know In Advance So It's Not Their Fault?
LOCATION: MISSOURI
Walking home one night, there was a water access hole where the cast iron lid was not seated over the opening because it was overgrown and not maintained. This is on a main street by the post office, a block from city hall. It was dark and I didn't see it because of the overgrowth, stepped down and the lid shifted off and my leg went in the hole. I fell because I lost footing. Fell backwards over the cast iron into the street. Arm and ribs hit the cast-iron lift on the lid, head smacked the street. My leg was still lodged in the hole up to my knee, when I fell it twisted my knee and my weight slammed my leg into the lip of the cast iron lid causing nerve damage in my leg.
Notified the city, they said that because the didn't have advanced notice of a safety risk so they had no chance to correct the issue, and therefore they are not responsible for the subsequent medical bills. Within 8 hours of my call, they had dug the entire area out and fixed it.
Is this correct? I have permanent nerve damage in that leg because of this. No advanced knowledge of a safety risk?! Yeah, neither did I.
Is this correct? Do they seriously have no liability because they didn't know before I got hurt?
** I have both before and after pictures and videos of the area, and in one picture you can see my shoe in the hole that was ripped off my foot during the accident.
Edited to clarify some infomation.
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