Young v. Madison County

The plaintiff alleges that she was the owner of a threshing machine and engine which were being moved by her agents and employes along a public highway in Madison county, upon which highway the county had erected and was maintaining a bridge, and that on reaching the bridge the parties in charge of the outfit examined the structure, and, believing it to be safe, proceeded to move the engine across. To accomplish this they detached the engine from the rest of the outfit and undertook to pull it over the bridge with a team of horses, the traction being applied by means of a cable or rope…