Herrington v. Jury

MARVIN, Judge.

In these consolidated cases, each judgment awarded damages respectively to the plaintiff-owner and to the plaintiff-driver of a soybean combine that overturned when a bridge in the parish road system collapsed. The defendant police jury appeals, raising the one assignment that the trial court erred in finding that the jury had actual or constructive notice of the defective timbers in the bridge and failed to correct the defects within a reasonable time.

Expert and lay testimony, as well as photographs, provided substantial evidence that defective timbers both existed for a long…