Hutchinson v. Greene County

The trial court nonsuited the plaintiff. The action is based upon an injury to the plaintiff’s mule, alleged to be due to the failure of Greene county to perform its duty in keeping a certain public bridge in good and safe order. According to the testimony of the plaintiff, he knew that in the bridge there was a hole which had been there for perhaps three months. “It was on one side of the bridge, about where the wheels cross between the last plank and the dirt alongside the bridge.” Another hole consisted of a broken plank at the other end of the bridge. It would appear, from, the evidence,…