Rothrock v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a decision sustaining a demurrer to a petition in which the plaintiff sued Douglas county for damages sustained by him by the falling of a bridge *287on a county road across Wakarusa creek. The plaintiff hired two men who owned a traction engine to haul his threshing machine from Lawrence to some place in the southwest part of Douglas county, and in crossing this bridge, without the statutory planking, the floor of the bridge gave way, throwing the engine and tender on which the plaintiff was riding into the creek. The…