Belken v. City of Iowa Falls
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hardin District Court. — HoN. J. K. Whitaker, Judge. Motion to recover damages for a personal injury, occasioned, as alleged, by a defective sidewalk. There was a trial to jury, verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
This action was not commenced until more than three months had elapsed following the date of the injury alleged. It is provided by Code, section 3447 — a part 1. Pleadings. limitation. of the general statute of limitations — that actions founded on injury to the person on account of defective sidewalks, etc., must be brought within *431three months, unless written notice specifying the time, place, and circumstances of the injury shall have been served upon the municipal corporation to be charged within sixty days from the happening of the injury. We think it sufficiently appears that a notice,…
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