Underwood v. City of North Miami

Although a municipality has no common-law duty to maintain a grassy parkway, Musetto v. City of Miami Beach, 82 So.2d 595 (Fla.1955); City of Miami Beach v. Quinn, 149 Fla. 326, 5 So.2d 593 (1942); Kass v. City of Miami Beach, 436 So.2d 1086 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983), once a governmental entity undertakes to perform a repair, a duty arises to complete the repair in a non-negligent manner. See Slemp v. City of N. Miami, 545 So.2d 256 (Fla.1989); City of St. Petersburg v. Collum, 419 So.2d 1082 (Fla.1982); Shealor v. Ruud, 221 So.2d 765 (Fla. 4th DCA 1969). Because a genuine issue of material fact…