Watson v. Proprietors of Lisbon Bridge
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was an action of the case, alleging that a horse of tho plaintiff through a defect in the bridge was wounded; that an attempt W'as made to cure the horse, but that it finally died in consequence of tho injury.
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This was an action of the case, alleging that a horse of tho plaintiff through a defect in the bridge was wounded; that an attempt W'as made to cure the horse, but that it finally died in consequence of tho injury. The defendants erected their bridge in September, J 832, and as the end of the planked bridge did not adjoin on any road regularly laid out, in the following November a convenient passage way from the public highway to the bridge, a distance of about twenty rods, was made by sundry persons, among whom wore several members of the bridge corporation. This was the only way of…
1Opinion of the Court
After a continuance, for advisement, the opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Weston G. J.
-The statute, by which the defendants were created a corporation, and authorized to build the bridge in question, and from which also they derive their right to claim and receive toll, imposes upon them the duty to keep the same “ in good, safe, and passable repair.” If the plaintiff has sustained an injury, from the failure of the defendants to fulfil this duty, we doubt not he may sustain an action therefor. This results from the principles of natural justice, which are to be applied as well to…
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