Taylor v. Davis County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Dams District Gourt. Tub plaintiff sues to recover damages which he alleges he sustained by falling from a bridge, on a public highway in Davis county, Iowa. The cause was tried to the court, without a jury, resulting in a judgment for the defendant for costs. The plaintiff appeals. See the opinion for the further facts of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Millbe, Ch., J.
The substance of the finding of facts by the courtis, that while the plaintiff was traveling upon a public highway leading south from Bloomfield, and attempting to cross a small bridge constructed over a small ravine, over which the highway passed, the buggy in which plaintiff was riding ran off the bridge, throwing plaintiff out and breaking his leg, *296which disabled him from attending to his ordinary business for several weeks.
The bridge was 16 feet wide, and its length on a parallel with the road about 12 feet, and the floor of the bridge was about 8 feet above the bottom of…
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