Benson v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 78 Wash. 541
• 139 P. 501
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1125

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Claims — Presentation — Conditions Precedent. Under Seattle city charter, art. 4, § 29, and Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 7995, 7996, making it mandatory to present a claim for damages to the city council of cities of the first class in the manner required by the charter, within thirty days after the damages accrued, the presentation of such claims is a condition precedent to action.</p> <p>Same — Failure to File Claim — Excuses. Failure to file a claim against a city within thirty days after sustaining personal injuries by a fall upon a sidewalk cannot be excused by the disability of the party, where, for two weeks after the accident, she was not incapacitated, and filed no claim because she supposed her injuries were of a trifling nature.</p>