Ensign v. Board of Supervisors
New York Supreme Court
Appeal by tbe defendant from a judgment, entered on a verdict rendered at tbe Livingston Circuit, and also from an order denying a motion for a new trial made on the minutes of the justice before whom the action was tried.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The action was brought to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of defects in a certain bridge across the Genesee river, which, as she alleges, the county of Livingston was bound to repair. The principal question is whether the action will lie against the county. The river in its course between the towns of Geneseo and Leicester, is crossed by a highway leading from the village of Cuylerville, and at that point the bridge in question is located. In 1837, the legislature passed an act incorporating the Leicester Bridge Company for the purpose of building a toll…
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