Helbach v. City of Long Beach

Plaintiff recovered judgment against the city of Long Beach for personal injuries sustained when, during darkness, she fell down an unlighted exterior stairway into the basement of a building erected, maintained and operated by the defendant city. She failed to file her claim for damages within the ninety-day period provided for by section 1 of Act 5149, Deering’s General Laws, 1937, page 2204 (Stats. 1931, p. 2475) but did file such claim within the six-month period ordained in section 338 of the charter of such city (Stats. 1921, p. 2054, 2151). Appellant (defendant) seeks reversal of the…