Jackson v. State of New York

West Canada creek forms part of the boundary between Oneida and Herkimer counties and its waters are spanned by the Comstock bridge which divides sections of a State highway traversing territory in these counties. Pursuant to section 19-a of the Highway Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 25) the State Superintendent of Public Works condemned the bridge as unsafe for travel by vehicles weighing more than four and a half tons and propelled at a rate of speed in excess of ten miles per hour. Notice to that effect was posted by his order and under the statute the State thus assumed the obligation to supervise…