Tioga County v. Bohnert

SCHOONMAKER, District Judge.

This case involves the question

of the liability of a Pennsylvania county to respond in damages for injuries received by a passenger in an automobile which was driven in *104the nighttime over an unguarded abutment of a bridge on a .township highway erected over a stream by the county of Tioga. The court below resolved the question of that liability against the county, which appealed.

The automobile in which Bohnert, the plaintiff, was riding, was proceeding along a state highway (as distinguished from a township road) from Mansfield towards Wellsboro, and had arrived at…