State ex rel. Fleming v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

Many years after the settlement of Cowley county, .and until the year 1889, it appears that there was no bridge across the Arkansas riv.er in Beaver township. In 1889 a contract was made with a bridge company to erect a bridge across the river in section 21 of that township for the sum of $4800, of which the township and citizens in the locality contributed $2800, and the board of county commissioners $2000, which was the largest sum the county was then authorized to expend upon a bridge. In January, 1910, the bridge proper was destroyed by a…