Washington County v. May

1. “A county is not liable for suit for any cause of action, unless made so by statute.” Civil Code, § 384.

2. A petition which asserts a primary liability on the part of a county because of injuries to live stock, alleged to have been due to the defective condition of a bridge, and which does not allege that the bridge was a public bridge and that it was erected after the passage of the act approved December 29, 1888 (Acts of 1888, p. 39, Civil Code, § 748), should he dismissed on demurrer. "There could be no liability set forth in the petition without an allegation that the bridge was…