DRAPER v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. S011881.

52 Cal.3d 502 (1990)

802 P.2d 367

276 Cal. Rptr. 864

GAYLE DRAPER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

James H. Davis, James A. Quinn, Riley & Associates and William H. Waysman for Plaintiff and Appellant.

James K. Hahn, City Attorney, John T. Neville and Richard M. Helgeson, Assistant City Attorneys, and Katherine J. Hamilton, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Repondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this case we are called on to decide whether plaintiff, physically unable to file a claim against a governmental entity within 100 days of an accident (Gov. Code, former § 911.2),1 may be denied relief from the Government Code's claim-filing requirements on the ground that an attorney, purporting to act on her behalf, filed a timely claim against a governmental entity different...

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