Johnson v. Board of County Commissioners

The parties appeared in reverse order in the trial court. We will refer to the plaintiff in error as the trucking company and defendant in error as the county.

The county brought suit against the trucking company for the negligent destruction of a bridge built and owned by the county and maintained for travel on one of the Morgan County roads. From a judgment entered after a jury verdict in favor of the county in the sum of $4019.38 the trucking company brings the case here by writ of error. The findings of the jury that the trucking company was negligent in overloading one of its trucks so as…