The Georgia Court of Appeals threw out a $1.4 million verdict against the city of Atlanta, ruling there was no evidence offered concerning the condition of an uncovered manhole blamed for causing a motorist’s injuries at the time of the accident.

While there photographs of the manhole that asserted to show it was deteriorated, the opinion said, they were taken more than a year after the accident and cannot be taken as evidence of its condition when plaintiff Pamela Dale drove into it.