Board of Commissioners v. Leggett

The complaint of the appellee seeks to recover damages sustained while attempting to cross a bridge of which the county was the owner, and which, as the complaint charges, it negligently failed to keep in a safe condition for travel.

The complaint is conceded to be sufficient in so far as it charges negligence on the part of appellant, but it is urged, in a very able argument, that it is insufficient because it does not show that the claim of the appellee was presented to the board of county commissioners before the action was insti*545luted. The allegations of the complaint upon this phase of…