Baltimore & Ohio Ry. v. Simpson

Citations

• 21 Ohio C.C. Dec. 349

Syllabus

<p>BRIDGES — DAMAGES—NEGLIGENCE.</p> <p>'Construction of Bridge not Proximate Cause of Damages to Land by Retarding Flow of Flood Waters.</p> <p>Damages to land by flood waters cannot be attributed to a railway company for negligence in the construction of a bridge on its right of way over a flowing stream by mere casuai connection between damming the water and retarding its flow, especially in view of the facts appearing that the flood was unprecedented, and that other causes intervened and that the building of the bridge was not the proximate cause thereof.</p> <p>[Syllabus approved by the court.]</p>