Renner v. Buchanan County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buchanan District Court. — H. H. Boxes, Judge. Aotion for damages for alleged negligence of tbe defendant county in constructing and maintaining a culvert upon the highway. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence, there was a directed A'crdict for the defendant. The plaintiff appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, C. J.
The plaintiff met with an accident, while driving his automobile over a culvert upon one of the defendant’s highways. The facts disclosed are, in brief, that the defendant constructed a culvert across one of its east and west highways. A cross section of the culvert was two feet square, and its construction cost $148. The culvert had been fully constructed, but the surface of the highway had not been restored to its proper level. A temporary construction of string-, ers and boards was laid, for the convenience of present travel. Above such temporary construction, the west bank of the…
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