HANCOCK v. CITY OF ANCHORAGE


299 S.W.2d 794 (1957)

Alma Elizabeth HANCOCK, Appellant, v. CITY OF ANCHORAGE, Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Raymond Emler, L. Edmund Huber, Louisville, for appellant.

Lively M. Wilson, Stites, Wood, Helm & Peabody, Louisville, for appellee.


MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.

The question presented on this appeal is whether an action may be maintained against a city for an injury growing out of a condition in a public sidewalk — a loose lid or top on a city-owned water meter box — when notice of the injury was not served on the city within 90 days of the occurrence of the injury in accordance with the governing statute, KRS 411.110, which reads:

"No action shall be maintained against any...

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