Heck v. City of Knoxville

—Plaintiff’s petition as finally amended was in seven counts, seeking damages for injuries sustained in a fall upon a public sidewalk in defendant-city. Plaintiff dismissed or abandoned four of the counts and they may be disregarded. The trial court dismissed the other three counts upon defendant’s motion, as showing lack of compliance with section 614.1(1), Code, 1954, providing for written notice to cities of claimed injuries from defective sidewalks. Plaintiff has appealed.

Evidently upon defendant’s insistence the trial court ordered the record upon appeal to embrace virtually all…