St. Louis Bridge Co. v. Miller

This was an action on the case, brought by Mrs. Emaroy Miller against the St. Louis Bridge Company, to recover damages for a personal injury received by the plaintiff while walking along one of the approaches to the defendant’s bridge at East St. Louis. The St. Louis Bridge, proper, terminates at the water’s edge at East St. Louis, and from that point two iron bridges, called approaches, lead gradually down towards Fourth Street. On each of these approaches is a wagon road eighteen or twenty feet wide, and on each side of such wagon road is a foot path six or seven feet wide.

The plaintiff, on…