Williams v. City of Mexico

This action was instituted in the circuit court of Audrain county, Missouri. The petition is in two counts. In the first count plaintiff seeks to recover damages in the sum of $20,000 for injuries sustained by him to his person; in the second count he seeks to recover $225 for injury done to his automobile, by reason of his automobile, in which he was riding, being driven over the west stone abutment which had formerly supported the west end of a highway bridge which had spanned Salt River Creek just east of the city of Mexico. This bridge had been torn down by the State Highway Department…