Madisonville, Hartford & Eastern Railroad v. Allen

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellee, Allen, brought this suit against the appellant company, charging in substance that in the erection of a bridge by it across Pond River, a navigable stream, it placed in the river a number of piles between the piers of the bridge, which piles extended above the water mark and obstructed the navigation of the river; that while the piles were thus obstructing navigation, a large raft of logs he was floating down the river came in *707contact with these poles andi the accumulation of drift, and as a result a number of his logs were lost, and…