Abernethy v. Township of Van Buren

Plaintiff sued for damages from personal injuries claimed to have resulted from defects in a bridge. The declaration sets up that the township had the care and control of it, but does not locate it specifically except as a bridge in a “ public street highway ” in the township.. It turned out on the trial to be a bridge over a mill-race cross*384ing a street in tbe village of Belleville, within the township of Yan Burén.

The declaration further sets up that the bridge was allowed to remain out of repair, in unsafe condition, after reasonable time to have repaired it, and various planks with which…