Board of Commissioners v. Brown

Morris, C.

The appellee presented to the appellant a claim for damages alleged to have been sustained, by reason of an injury to his mare while crossing over a bridge on one of the highways of the county of Madison.

The complaint describes the highway, and alleges that fifteen years before the appellant had erected, and since partially maintained, a wooden bridge along the line of said highway, over and across a certain pond ; that said bridge, when first erected, was an open bridge; that it had afterward decayed and become rotten and unsound, and, by the carelessness and neglect of the…