Hase v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 51 Wash. 174
• 98 P. 370
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 990

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Actions—Claims—As Condition Precedent — Reasonableness op Requirements — Statement of Claimant’s Residence. It is an unreasonable requirement that a claimant for damages against a city shall state his residence for one year last past in a claim to be filed with the city, as a condition precedent to action against the city, and hence one that the city has no power to enforce by ordinance (Mount and Fullerton, JJ., dissenting).</p> <p>Same — Claim—Description of Defect — Sufficiency. A claim for damages against a city for personal injuries sufficiently describes the nature of the defect when it alleges that the injury was caused by the claimant’s “falling through a defective sidewalk,” under the rule requiring claims to be as liberally construed as a pleading.</p>