Board of Commissioners v. Sappenfield

It appears from appellee’s complaint that several years prior to the happening of the injuries therein alleged, the appellant had constructed, at the foot of a steep hill, across a stream, in Parke county, and as a part of a free gravel road, a certain bridge and tbe necessary approaches thereto. The bridge was carelessly and negligently constructed, in that no barriers or railings were provided, they being necessary to make the bridge reasonably safe. In April, 1889, while the bridge was in this unsafe condition, appellee drove across the same with his horses and baggy, and while upon the…