Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Hershey

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that notice was insufficient because it failed \entirely to state the cause of the plaintiff's fall and hence her injury\ Id., 401
• the savings clause will not validate a notice which failed entirely to state a cause of action
• trial court properly set aside jury verdict on ground that plaintiff failed to state cause of injury in her statutory notice
• ‘‘[t]he provision that no notice shall be held invalid or insufficient because of an ‘inaccuracy’ in stat- ing the cause of the injury, if the conditions stated in the statute appear, cannot avail to make valid a notice which fails entirely to state that cause’’ (emphasis added)
• total absence of cause of injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).