Bethel v. Pawnee County

-Fawcett, J.

From a ¡judgment of the district court for Pawnee county, in favor of plaintiff, for damages occasioned by the death of plaintiff’s decedent, Robert Bethel, which resulted from the giving way of a bridge in one of the public roads of defendant county, defendant appeals.

The road in which the bridge was located is on the state line between the states of Nebraska and Kansas. It was *205four rods wide. Two rods of this width were in the state of Kansas and two in the state of Nebraska, so that the center of the road was the state line between the two states. At the point where the…