Smith v. Zimmer
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from Distñct Court, Lewis and, Clark County; J. Miller Smith, Judge. ActioN by G-. W. Smith against Henry Zimmer, road supervisor, and Joseph J. Hindson et at., commissioners of Lewis and Clark county. From a judgment in favor of defendants, plaintiff appeals. Statement of the Case by the Justice Delivering the Opinion. Action for damages for a personal injury.
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Appeal from Distñct Court, Lewis and, Clark County; J. Miller Smith, Judge. ActioN by G-. W. Smith against Henry Zimmer, road supervisor, and Joseph J. Hindson et at., commissioners of Lewis and Clark county. From a judgment in favor of defendants, plaintiff appeals. Statement of the Case by the Justice Delivering the Opinion. Action for damages for a personal injury. During the year 1909 and up to the time that this action was commenced, the defendants Hindson, Richardson and one Moses F. Root were the commissioners of Lewis and Clark county. Moses F. Root, made one of the original…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Brantly
The evidence discloses the following: The accident occurred on October 11, 1909, near the point where the road crosses Elk creek by a steel or iron bridge. As it approaches the bridge, the road extends along the shore of the stream only a few feet away. It is upon a grade two and a half or three feet above the level of the natural surface. At the bridge it turns at a right angle. In the grade was a culvert, constructed so as to allow the passage of water into Elk creek through a coulee which the road crosses. On the side toward the stream between the culvert and the bridge, the grade, except…
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