O'Bryan v. State

The claimant’s intestate met his death while driving a traction engine over a State bridge, known *619as the Pecksport bridge, which spans the old Chenango canal now used as a canal feeder in the town of Eaton, Madison county, May 31, 1910.

He was working for the highway commissioner of the town as an engineer and was driving a traction engine, weighing four and one-half tons; and when nearly over the bridge the engine broke through the bridge and claimant’s intestate was killed.

The bridge was built about thirteen years before the accident, was twenty-six and one-half feet long between the…