Lundstrom v. Township of Ellsworth

This action was brought to recover damages done to plaintiff’s traction engine and steel threshing separator by the breaking of a bridge spanning Pine river on a highway in defendant township, while such equipment was being driven over it. Plaintiff was the owner of a traction engine and separator, with which he engaged in threshing grain for farmers during the fall of 1915 in defendant township. On September 25, 1915, while traveling with his equipment *504from a place where he had been threshing to another where he had engaged to do so, he had occasion to cross this bridge, which broke under…