Comstock v. Township of Georgetown

The plaintiff was injured while driving a traction engine which broke through a bridge which it was the defendant’s duty to maintain. The action is based •upon alleged negligence of the defendant’s officers in allowing certain partially decayed stringers to remain in the bridge. There is some testimony that one or more of the officers had been informed that the stringers were affected to some degree by rot, and the question of notice, as well as the degree of decay, and the propriety of permitting them to remain, were questions for the jury. A verdict being rendered in favor of the plaintiff,…