Lynds v. Town of Plymouth
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for injuries received on a highway bridge or culvert. Trial by jury, Windsor County, December Term, 1899, Tyler, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The witnesses Tarbell, Wilson, Green, the Slacks and the Hubbards, referred to in the opinion, testified to accidents that had befallen them in driving over the bridge in question.
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, C. J.
Eight questions reserved upon trial have been argued by the defendant’s counsel.
I. The defendant claims that the structure where the accident happened was not a bridge. The court ruled that it was a “broken down bridge” and to this ruling the defendant *218excepted. In the notice to the town it is termed a “small bridge, otherwise called a culvert” and according to the lexicographers it might well in its original condition have been called either. The defendant claimed that the question whether it was a bridge or not should have been submitted to the jury, and so it should have been, had the…
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