Sisk v. Williamson County

PRESIDING JUSTICE LEWIS,

dissenting:

"Don’t cross the bridge till you come to it, Is a proverb old, and of excellent wit.” Longfellow, "The School of Salerno,” in The Golden Legend, VI.

We really do not have to "cross the bridge” as to whether pedestrians are intended and permitted users of county roads and bridges. This is not a case of a pedestrian using a county road or bridge in the traditional and customary manner.

I realize that "[t]he parties have briefed extensively the issue of whether a duty of care was owed by Williamson County to maintain the road, bridge, and right-of-way in a…