Bailey v. City of Baldwin City

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

Can an action against a city for personal injuries inflicted on May 23, 1922, through its negligence, be maintained without giving the notice required by R. S. 12-105, which became effective December 23, 1923?

In the original petition of plaintiff filed April 18, 1924, he alleged that the city had been maintaining electric wires carrying a high voltage along and across the streets of the city and had carelessly and negligently allowed them to be uninsulated and unguarded, and that plaintiff while placing a telephone wire above the…