Dougherty County v. Newsom

The record discloses that about twenty years-ago the County of Dougherty, through its proper officers, had a bridge erected over one of the streams in the county. The county authorities had the bridge built under contract, but-failed or neglected to take from the contractor the bond required by law to keep the bridge in repair for seven years or-as much longer as the parties might agree upon. The plaintiff in the court below was injured by reason, he claims, of a failure to keep this bridge in repair. The injury occurred considerably more than seven years after the building of the bridge.…