City of Campbellsville v. Morgan

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll —

Affirming.

Within the city limits of Campbellsville there is a wooden bridge that crosses Buckhorn Creek. This bridge is about eleven feet high, and the public road that approaches it on one side runs for some distance from the bridge on an embankment about ten feet high. In May, 1911, the appellee, Morgan, in company with Geo. Mar-pie, drove across this bridge in a buggy, to which there was attached one horse driven by Morgan, the top of the buggy being up. Just after crossing the bridge, and when a few feet from it, on the road made on the embankment,…