State Ex Rel. McKinney v. Richardson

TAYLOR, Justice.

As a part of its highway system the state owns and maintains a bridge across the Clearwater jRiver at Greer in Clearwater County. The bridge is of steel construction and consists of two spans. Before the damage occurred the one span was 235 feet long and the other 100 feet. The adjoining end of each span rested upon a concrete pier erected in the river channel. On November 10, 1949, the defendant Sanders, an employee of the defendant Joe Richardson, driving a truck upon which was loaded a caterpillar tractor with bulldozer equip ment attached, both belonging to Richardson,…