Norris v. Ross Township

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

In this action plaintiff sued to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by a defective highway. The court sustained a demurrer to the petition, from which ruling the plaintiff appeals.

The highway in question runs east and west. The petition alleged that for several weeks prior to plaintiff’s injury a culvert in this highway had been allowed to remain out of' repair, so that persons using the highway were obliged to drive around the south end of the culvert, where the ground was about two and one-half feet lower, and that…