State Ex Rel. Watkins v. Rich

The State Eoads Commission was sued in this case, jointly with an individual defendant, upon a declaration which alleged that in' the course of the construction or repair of a public highway the defendants negligently permitted a dangerous embankment or culvert, where the road crosses a stream, to be without a guard rail or other protection, and without a warning light at night, and negligently allowed the road to be open for use while the embankment or culvert was thus unprotected, and left in the bed of the road near the embankment a pile of stone, gravel and sand, constituting a dangerous…