Board of Commissioners v. Washington Township

— The question in this case is whether the township can be compelled to pay part of the expense of maintaining a public bridge, or whether the whole expense . must be borne by the county. The bridge concerning which the contest is waged is connected with a free gravel road constructed by the county, and the north end of it connects directly with one of the public streets of the town of Spencer, but it is wholly outside of the corporate limits of the town. The bridge was constructed by the county.

It is quite clear that the bridge can not be regarded as a bridge belonging to the town of…