Cleveland v. Town of Washington
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1905, Orange County, Powers, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion fully states the case. Unless the word “bridge” is clearly limited by statute, it means “any structure by which a highway is carried over a place.” 5 Cyc. 1052, Note 1; Whitall v. Freeholders, 40 N. J. L. 302; State v. Gorham, 3 7 Me. 451; Shear. & Redf., Neg.
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Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1905, Orange County, Powers, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion fully states the case. Unless the word “bridge” is clearly limited by statute, it means “any structure by which a highway is carried over a place.” 5 Cyc. 1052, Note 1; Whitall v. Freeholders, 40 N. J. L. 302; State v. Gorham, 3 7 Me. 451; Shear. & Redf., Neg. (5th ed.) 390. The notice must be so certain that an officer of the town, with the aid of the notice, could readily identify the place where…
1Opinion of the CourtRowell, C. J.
This is case for injury on a bridge. The notice designates the place of injury as “on the first bridge in the highway beyond the residence of C. J. Kingsbury” as you go< westerly toward Gilbert O'. Smith’s place. It appeared *501that there were two small wooden culverts of less than eighteen inches span, covered with plank, between Kingsbury’s and the bridge on which the injury was received. The planking of the first culvert beyond Kingsbury’s was not over three feet wide, and that of the second culvert averaged about three and a half feet wide. The bridge in question was also of wood, and…
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