State ex rel. Sheafor v. Board of Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Horton, C. J.:

There has been a public highway for eighteen years extending east and west along the section line between sections fifteen and twenty-two, township five, range two west, in Lawrence township, Cloud county. Where this public highway crosses Salt creek — a stream of considerable size — about a mile from where it empties into the Republican river, a bridge has been maintained for ten years or over. . It appears that the bridge was constructed and has been kept in repair jointly by Lawrence township and Cloud county. In 1886, the bridge…