Stebbins v. Township of Keene

This is an action on the case to recover damages for an injury sustained while crossing a bridge over a culvert, with a traction-engine, in the public highway, in the township of Keene, in the county of Ionia, on the 2d day of October, 1882. The bridge was built in 1877, and was about fourteen feet wide and supported by four stringers, three of which were rock elm and the other beech. The *554bridge was examined in June preceding the accident, and the beech stringer was then put in new. This highway liad been in use thirty years, and was one of the main traveled thoroughfares in the township. The…