Murray v. Board of County Commissioners

The plaintiff in error was injured in undertaking to cross a bridge. He attributes his injuries to defects in the bridge, negligently allowed to exist after notice to the chairman of the defendant Board, and sues to recover damages therefor under chapter 237 of the Laws of 1887. Gen. Stat. 1889, ¶" 7134. A verdict was returned and judgment rendered against him; from which judgment he prosecutes error to this court.

*31. Opinion evidence no competent, when. *2A witness who had experience in the building of bridges such as the one in question, after describing the method of its construction and the…