Handy v. Township of Meridian

Plaintiff was injured by his wagon’s being overturned upon him by reason of a defect in the highway of defendant township. This defect was near the approach, at the north end, of a bridge over Cedar river. In the spring of the year 1894, it appears that the waters of the river overflowed this approach, washing out a part of it, uncovering some of the cobble stones of which the approach was made, so that the usually-traveled part of the highway became impassable. In order to avoid this washout, teams passing along the highway turned out to the east at the north end of the bridge, passing along…