Cochran v. Perry County Road District No. 1

Plaintiffs, Scott P. Cochran and Todd A. Dusch, alleged that they were injured when their automobile abruptly stopped after the bottom of the vehicle was struck and held by an iron beam protruding from the floor of a bridge on a rural county road in Perry County on January 15, 1995. As we will more fully describe later, plaintiffs gave notice to the governmental entity and filed suit within the statute of limitations, and subsequent to the running of the statute, they amended to add the proper governmental entity. The amended complaint was dismissed by the circuit court of Perry County on…