Foster v. Board of County Commissioners

Citations

• 68 Kan. 164
• 74 P. 595
• 1903 Kan. LEXIS 425

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COUBT.</p> <p>Highway — Liability of County for Damages from Defective Bridge. Where it is agrfeed in a contract of copartnership for operating a thrashing-machine that B. & E. shall furnish to the copartnership an engine of a certain kind and power, and an engine is furnished, and while moving the machinery over a bridge on a public highway, which by the negligence of the county commissioners has been permitted to become and remain in an unsafe ■condition for public travel, the engine falls through the bridge and is lost, and the copartnership thereby prevented from fulfilling certain thrashing .contracts at a profit, it is held, that one of the partners who was not the owner of the engine and who had no property interest therein cannot recover from the county his' lost profits on the thrashing contract.</p>