Buchanan v. Rose

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries. It presents the question whether one who .drives, over a bridge on a public road and thereafter discovers that such bridge, because of its ^defective condition, has broken down under the weight of his vehicle, without negligence on his part, is under any duty to give warning so as to prevent other travelers from being injured as a result of the broken bridge.

According to the testimony most favorable to the plaintiffs, when the defendant’s truck, driven by defendant’s employee, passed! over the bridge in question the rear wheels crushed the…