Escher v. Carroll County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cremford District Court. — Hon. F. M. Powers, Judge. Action at law to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff in the fall of a defective bridge maintained by the defendant county. Trial to a jury. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $7,661.29, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
The case has once been before this court, and the opinion on that appeal will be found in 146 Iowa, 738.
*629Plaintiff is a farmer living near Manning, in Carroll county, and on April 2, 1906, while driving over a county bridge in said county, the bridge gave way, causing the team which he was driving and the wagon in which he was riding to fall into the stream which the bridge spanned, resulting in damage to his property and injury to his person. On May 14th of the same year he caused a notice of his injury and of his intention to claim damages therefor to be served upon the defendant county, and…
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