Patterson v. Township of Ravenna

For more than 30 years prior to the commencement of this suit a highway had existed in the defendant township known as the “Blackmer road.” One-naif mile south of the village of Ravenna, and at the intersection of sections 10, 11, 14 and 15, it crossed a stream known as Crockery creek. A new bridge had been erected over this stream in 1919 at a cost of about $4,000 in money and about $1,000 worth of labor, which was donated. There was a slight deflection in the course of the road at the point where the bridge was built. The stream ran southwesterly through section 15, and near the quarter…