Cope v. Hampton County

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McGowan.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the County of Hampton for damages, on account of injury to a mare, the property of the plaintiff, alleged to have been sustained by the breaking of a decayed plank in a bridge, while the plaintiff was “riding the mare along a causeway, known as Hickory Hill causeway, a part of a public highway of Hampton County;” from the effect of which injury, it is alleged, the mare subsequently died. The plaintiff himself testified that when the injury was inflicted “he was in a road-cart,…