Nand v. City of Newton

The question presented in this case is whether a certain bridge across Sand Creek is within the corporate limits of the city of Newton, and the city therefore bound to keep it in repair. The original plat of the city covered section 17, township 23, *230range 1, east of the sixth principal meridian. Afterward, a county road sixty feet wide was duly laid out across section 18, the center line of the section running east and west being in the middle of the road. The bridge in question, by falling from which the plaintiff was injured, was constructed on the south half of this road, wholly south of…