County Commissioners v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Bent District Court.—Hon. Henry Hunger, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
In August, 1904, unusual and unprecedented floods washed away or destroyed the bridges across the natural streams in Bent county, and otherwise materially damaged the public roads. Thereafter, and on August 30, 1904, the board of county commissioners entered into a contract in the sum of $5700. for the rebuilding of a span of a bridge, so destroyed, across the Arkansas River, known as the Caddoa bridge. When the contract was entered into there was in the county treasury, belonging to the proper fund, a sum in excess of the contract price of the repairs, but it was known to the board of county…
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