JOHNSON v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

No. 18227.

336 P.2d 300 (1959)

H. L. JOHNSON, doing business as The H. L. Johnson Trucking Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COUNTY OF MORGAN, State of Colorado, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Adhered to on Rehearing March 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wormwood, O'Dell & Wolvington, Denver, for plaintiff in error.

C. H. Anderson, County Atty., Brush, for defendant in error.


DAY, Justice.

The parties appeared in reverse order in the trial court. We will refer to the plaintiff in error as the trucking company and defendant in error as the county.

The county brought suit against the trucking company for the negligent destruction of a bridge built and owned by the county and maintained for travel on one of the Morgan County roads. From a judgment entered after a jury verdict in favor of the county in the sum of $4,019.38 the trucking...

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