DATES v. CITY OF ATLANTA

321 Ga. 696

FINAL COPY S24G1246. DATES et al. v. CITY OF ATLANTA. MCMILLIAN, Justice. Kierra Dates filed an action against the City of Atlanta (“the City”) after her minor son was injured on City property. Prior to filing suit and within the time required by law, Dates sent an ante litem notice to the City, see OCGA § 36-33-5 (“municipal ante litem notice statute”), claiming a loss in a nonspecific amount. She later provided a supplemental ante litem notice outside the time required by statute claiming a loss of $1,000,000. After the trial court dismissed Dates’s complaint for failure to…