Keya Paha County v. Brown County

This was an action by which Keya Paha county sought to recover from Brown county one-half of the cost of repairing and rebuilding a bridge over the Niobrara river between the counties above named. The defendant demurred to plaintiff’s petition. The demurrer was overruled, and defendant filed an answer in which -it was alleged that the bridge in question consisted of two spans, or two separate bridges; that one of the bridges was entirely washed away and destroyed, and that the work of restoring it was new construction, and was in fact the building of a new bridge; that defendant was not…