Wayne County Turnpike Co. v. Berry

Leonidas Berry brought suit against The President and Directors of the Wayne Comity Turnpike Company, to recover damages sustained by him from a fall through a bridge alleged to belong to said company, and which was out of repair. The bridge was within the corporation of Cambridge City, The company .put in a general denial of each and all the allegations of the plaintiff’s complaint, and pleaded further that the bridge in question had been built, before the organization of the turnpike company, by the White Water Valley Canal Company; also that the defendant knew the bridge was out of repair;…