Seymore v. Elbert County

Seymore sued the County of Elbert, upon the ground that his live stock and wagon were injured because of the defective condition of a bridge built over and across a gully or gulch in that county. His petition was dismissed on demurrer, and a writ of error is filed to the judgment of the court sustaining the demurrer. The petition alleges a primary liability against the county. The allegations in the declaration are, that petitioner’s wagon was being driven along a public road in the county, which road the county worked, repaired, and used as one of its public roads, and across which it built…