Morgan v. Fremont County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mills District Court. — N. W. Macy, Judge. Action at law to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by a defective bridge. There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
In May, 1891, the plaintiff, with a companion, drove a team of three mules and one horse, attached to a wagon loaded with about thirty bushels of com, onto a bridge in a public road within .the corporate limits of the defendant. The bridge was nearly fifty feet in length, and its floor was fifteen feet or more *645above the water in 'the stream below. While the team and men and wagon were on the bridge, it fell, and the plaintiff went down with it, and received the injuries of which he complains. He alleges that the plan of the bridge was defective; that bad timber and decayed lumber had been…
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