City of Birmingham v. Guy

We think that the claim filed substantially complied with the statute. City of Bessemer v. Barnett, 212 Ala. 202, 102 So. 23; McKinnon v. City of Birmingham, 196 Ala. 56, 71 So. 463; Grambs v. City of Birmingham, 202 Ala. 490, 80 So. 874. The statute does not require that the claim should set .forth or describe the cause or circumstances of the injury or the negligence charged as would perhaps be necessary in a complaint.

There was no error in refusing defendant’s requested charge E. If not otherwise faulty, it hypothesizes the fact of a defect in the sidewalk and “stepping stone” and no…