A municipality may be held liable to a plaintiff for injuries occurring to a child on a playground if the municipality fails to meet its required duty. Although a municipality is not an insurer of those who use public parks, the municipality's duty is to exercise due care under the circumstances. This duty does not impose strict liability upon the municipality, but rather imposes a duty to maintain its parks in a condition reasonably safe for public use. Therefore, a municipality has fulfilled its duty when the playground or park is free from danger as reasonably possible. Additionally, for a municipality to be liable for injury resulting from a defective condition in a park or playground, there must be either actual knowledge by the municipality or its employees of the alleged defective condition, or the condition must be so open and obvious and exist for such a length of time that the municipality should have known of it. For example, a city is liable for an injury to a child resulting from a falling tree caused by wind, due to a decay of the root structure, when the condition might be discovered by the exercise of reasonable care and repair.

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