Saltzgaber v. Morrill County

This action was brought to recover damages from Morrill county for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff and for the destruction of an automobile, all occasioned by driving into an obstruction on a public highway where a bridge was being installed about a half mile southeast of Bridgeport. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $7,500. The county brings the record here to have the proceedings reviewed.

The action was brought under section 2746, Comp. St. 1922, which provides: “If special damage happens to a person, his team, carriage or other property by means of insufficiency, or…