Thorp v. Town of Brookfield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action on the statute concerning highways and bridges, for an injury to the horses of the plaintiff through a defect in a bridge of the defendants ; brought to the Superior Court and tried to the jury before Minor, J. The plaintiff obtained a verdict and the defendants moved for a new trial for errors in the charge of the court. The case will be sufficiently understood from the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
On the trial of this cause in the court below it was admitted by the defendants that the bridge in question was impassable at the time of the accident, and had been for the space of two days previous thereto, which was known to them. Hence it became the duty of the defendants to give the public some suitable warning of the dangerous condition of the bridge. This they claim to have done by the erection of a fence or barrier across the highway within proper distance of each end of the bridge, and that such erections existed at the time the plaintiff’s driver approached the bridge. This was…
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