Maggs v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 86 Wash. 427
• 150 P. 612
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 1006

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Claims — Requisites — Residence oe Claimant — Statutes. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 7995, providing that every claim for damages sounding in tort against a city of the first class, filed in compliance with valid charter provisions of the city, shall contain a statement of the actual residence of the claimants at the date of presenting and filing such claim and for six months immediately prior to the time the claim accrued, is substantially complied with — and that is all that is required — by a notice stating the claimant’s residence at the date of the verification and for at least six months prior thereto, when both verified and filed within thirty days after the claim accrued; the presumption being that the residence remained the same until the day of filing, and all the purposes of the statute being thereby fulfilled.</p>