420.45  Claims for personal injury--limitation.

In all cases of personal injury or damage to property resulting from defective streets or sidewalks, or from any cause originating in the neglect or failure of any municipal corporation or its officers to perform their duties, no suit shall be brought against any such city after three months from the time of the injury or damage, and not then unless a written verified statement of the amount, nature, and cause of such injury or damage, and the time when and the place where such injury occurred, and the particular defect or negligence of the city or its officers which it is claimed caused or contributed to the injury or damage, shall be presented to the council or filed with the clerk within thirty days after said alleged injury or damage was sustained.

Section History: Early form

  [C97, § 1051; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 6734; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 420.45]


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