COOK v. CITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS

No. 60558.

264 N.W.2d 784 (1978)

Sylvia COOK, Appellant, v. CITY OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa and Michael Woodbury, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 19, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spellman, Spellman, Spellman & Spellman, by Martin E. Spellman and G. Michael Kealhofer, Perry, and Riedman & Welsh, Omaha, Neb., for appellant.

Gordon C. Abel, Council Bluffs, for appellees.

En banc.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves the sufficiency of a letter as notice under § 613A.5 of the Code of 1975, which provides:

Every person who claims damages from any municipality or any officer, employee, or agent of a municipality for or on account of any wrongful death, loss or injury within the scope of section 613A.2 or section 613A.8 or under common law shall commence an action therefor within six months, unless said person shall cause to...

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