State ex rel. Fleming v. Board of County Commissioners

Citations

• 87 Kan. 732
• 125 P. 23
• 1912 Kan. LEXIS 223

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Bridges — Repairs—Power of County Commissioners. Section 651 of the General Statutes of 1909 does not require that a bridge for the construction of which a county has- appropriated money shall be forever thereafter repaired or rebuilt and maintained at the place where it was erected.</p> <p>2. - Same. When a bridge for the construction of which the county appropriated money has been practically destroyed, the board of county commissioners, after full investigation as to the wants and convenience of citizens to be served, may, in the exercise of their discretion, for the public benefit, build a bridge on another site and not rebuild the destroyed bridge.</p>