Barr v. Cowlitz County

The plaintiff, Mrs. Barr, as adminis-tratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, seeks recovery of damages from Cowlitz county and the city of Kelso for his death, alleged to have resulted from the negligence of the county and city in the maintenance of a defective bridge over the Cowlitz river, within that county and city, which bridge collapsed while her husband was driving over it in an automobile, thereby causing his death. The county demurred to Mrs. Barr’s amended complaint, upon the ground that no cause of action' was stated therein as against the county, and especially upon the…