76 Ind. App. 435 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1921
Appellee, having been injured while traveling on one of the streets in the city of Hunting-burg, filed her complaint for damages, alleging that she was injured by reason of the negligence of appellant in failing to keep the street where she was injured in a reasonably safe condition for travel. There was a judgment against appellant from which it appeals and assigns as error the action of the court in overruling its motion for a new trial.
The first contention is that the court erred in admitting in evidence the notice which appellee caused to be given appellant of her injury. Section 8962 Burns 1914, Acts 1907 p. 249, provides: - “That no action in damages for the injuries to person or property resulting from any defect in the condition of any street, alley, highway, or bridge, shall be maintained against any city or town of this state, unless written notice containing a brief general description of the time, place, cause, and nature of the injury, shall, within sixty days thereafter, or if such defect consist of ice and snow, or both, within thirty days thereafter, be given to the clerk or mayor or members of the board of trustees of such city or town.”
The objection made to this instruction is that it does not place before the jury all' of the requirements of the notice; the language of the instruction being that notice must be given as to “time, place, and extent of injury,” while the statute requires that the notice also state the cause of the injury. The notice actually given complied with the statute. Had appellant desired to have had the court instruct more fully upon this subject, it should have tendered an instruction embodying therein its notion of the law.
It necessarily follows that the giving of the seventh instruction was error, but not necessarily reversible error.
Appellant contends that the verdict is not supported by the evidence, because appellee testified that she did not know what caused her to fall. But when her testimony is taken as a whole and considered with all the other evidence in the case, it is amply sufficient to sustain the verdict.
No reversible error being shown, the judgment is affirmed.