Supreme Court of Pennsylvania September 15, 1843 (Mercer County v. Coovert)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Gibson, C. J.

What is the contract on which the defendants were sued? They offered to pay a specified sum towards the expense of a bridge at a particular spot, the plaintiff paying the ■residue. The bridge was not built at the spot, but at another less advantageous to some of the defendants. And why was the site of it changed?