Lewis v. Coffee County
Supreme Court of Alabama
Action by County, on Statutory Bond for protection of Public Bridges against Injury from, Rafts. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Coffee. Tried before the Hon. II. D. Clayton.
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Action by County, on Statutory Bond for protection of Public Bridges against Injury from, Rafts. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Coffee. Tried before the Hon. II. D. Clayton. This action was brought by Coffee County as plaintiff, against J. L. Lewis, A. II- Rodgers, and others; and was founded on a penal bond executed by the defendants, which was dated the 14th April, 1883, and conditioned as follows: “ The condition of this bond is such that, whereas the said A. LI Rodgers lias about one hundred and fifty sticks of hewn and sawn timber, in White Water creek in said county, which he is…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
By “An act to provide for the security and protection of the public bridges in the county of Coffee” (Acts 1882-3, 257), it is declared unlawful for any person to float any raft of timber or logs down any of the streams in the county of Coffee, where there are one or more public bridges, without having first filed a bond in the office of the judge of probate, approved by him, payable to the county, in a sum not less than five hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the judge of probate, and conditioned to pay all such damages as may result to any of the public…
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