Rawlings v. Clyde Plank & Macadamized Road Co.

The plaintiff in the case, a young man about 26 years of age, was injured on the 22d day of November, 1905, upon a toll road controlled by the defendant company. It appears that he was engaged as salesman for the Singer Sewing Machine Company, and was driving along the highway late at night. Situated in the highway and across a ravine thereon is a bridge some 30 feet long and 14 or 16 feet in width. The ravine was approximately 15 feet in depth. The defendant company had permitted the railing upon the east side of the bridge to rot away and become displaced. The railing had been missing for…