City of Indianapolis v. Satz, No. 678S116
| Docket Nº | No. 678S116 |
| Citation | 377 N.E.2d 623, 268 Ind. 581 |
| Case Date | June 21, 1978 |
| Court | Supreme Court of Indiana |
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v.
Arnold SATZ, Appellee.
[268 Ind. 582]
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William Soards, Soards & Carroll, David R. Frick, Corp. Counsel, Indianapolis, for appellants.John T. Lorenz, Kightlinger, Young, Gray & DeTrude, Faust & Joyce, Indianapolis, for appellee.
GIVAN, Chief Justice.
Robert Snow, an off-duty policeman with the Indianapolis Police Department, arrested plaintiff Satz who was subsequently charged with being disorderly and with interfering or taunting a police officer. Subsequently Satz executed a release discharging the City from any and all liability arising from the incident. The release recited that the City denied liability and was dropping the above charges in return for the release by way of compromise. Satz later filed a complaint against Snow, the City of Indianapolis and one, Leonard Koplow, the owner of the store which at the time employed Snow as a security guard. The City moved to dismiss the action on the ground that the statutory notice had not been given, which motion was overruled. The jury returned a verdict for Koplow but against Snow and the City. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment, holding that there was substantial compliance with the City notice requirements. City of Indianapolis v. Satz (1977), Ind.App., 361 N.E.2d 1227. The court also affirmed the judgment with respect to the errors raised by appellant Snow. However, Snow has not petitioned this Court to transfer his cause and therefore those issues are not before us.
Similar arguments were presented to this Court recently in the case of Geyer v. City of Logansport (1977), Ind., 370 N.E.2d 333. There we held that the City notice statute then in force, IC § 18-2-2-1 (Burns' 1974) (now found in IC § 34-4-16.5-7 (Burns' Supp.1977)), "places an affirmative duty upon the plaintiff to deliver a writing to the city manifesting[268 Ind. 583] the nature of the claim." 370 N.E.2d at 336. Although the plaintiff in Geyer had not satisfied the statutory mandate, we noted that in some instances the requirement may be met by substantial compliance. Such was the situation in Galbreath v. City of Indianapolis (1970), 253 Ind. 472, 255 N.E.2d 225, where the plaintiff, although he had not delivered a notice of claim to the proper city officials specified under the statute, had nevertheless within the 60-day limit sent two letters
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to the city legal department detailing the accident and its surrounding circumstances. Consequently, this Court held that the plaintiff had substantially complied with the notice requirement...To continue reading
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