Board of Commissioners v. Rickel

The facts as they appear in the pleadings; and evidence are substantially these: The appellee was seated! in a carriage drawn by two horses driven by her father along-one of the highways of Fulton county, on the evening of September 14th, 1884 ; the horses approached within a short, distance of a bridge, when, becoming frightened at a plank: standing upright in the bridge, they suddenly leaped backward and turned over the carriage, throwing the appellee out upon the ground and injuring her. The bridge was, and long-had been, out of repair, so long that the county was chargeable with notice,…