Tande v. Vernon County

The following opinion was filed December 7, 1937:

MaRtin, J.

It appears that on the night of August 5, 1935, the eastern part of Vernon' county experienced an unusual rainfall, described by some witnesses as a cloudburst. This rainfall washed out bridges and culverts in the county highway system. It did considerable damage to some of the roadbeds. Where the accident in question occurred, about six miles southeast of the village of Hillsboro, on *606County Trunk EE, the rainfall washed out a steel culvert, thirty feet long and about thirty inches in diameter, leaving a void about seven feet in depth…