Pedestrian brought personal injury action against city, alleging injury from tripping and falling on an uncovered water meter hole.
The trial court granted summary judgment to city. Pedestrian appealed.
The Court of Appeals held that pedestrian’s ante litem notice to city did not substantially comply with statutory requirement for notice to a municipality prior to bringing a personal injury action against that municipality.
Pedestrian’s ante litem notice to city, regarding pedestrian’s alleged injury from tripping and falling on an uncovered water meter hole, did not substantially comply with statutory requirement for notice to a municipality prior to bringing a personal injury action against that municipality, where pedestrian’s notice provided an incorrect address for location of water meter, address provided by notice was approximately a third of a mile from the actual address of incident, and surrounding area contained more than 30 other water meters.