Legal Opinion
Peeples v. State of Utah
Court of Appeals of Utah
Decided September 23, 2004No. 20030509-CAPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
THORNE, Judge:
¶ 1 The trial court dismissed Delone Pee-ples’s complaint for failure to strictly comply with the Utah Governmental Immunity Act (Act), which requires claimants to present a “brief statement of the facts” in their mandatory notice of claim. Utah Code Ann. § 63-30-11(3)(a)(i) (1997).1 We reverse and remand.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND2
¶2 On December 5, 2001, Peeples slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk in front of the Utah State Liquor Store located at 1863 East 7000 South in Salt Lake City, injuring her hip. Peeples’s attorneys first informed the Utah State Risk Management…
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