Meriwether County v. Gilbert

This was a suit against a county for damages on account of loss of services of the plaintiff’s five-year-old child, who was killed when an automobile driven by the plaintiff, and occupied by the child and other members of his family, was precipitated through an open span of a public bridge forming part of a public highway of the defendant county. It was alleged: that the bridge span had been washed away by heavy rains, occurring on *501March 7 or 8, previous to the accident on April 14; that the county authorities knew of the condition of the bridge, or by the exercise of proper care should have…