Any person, association, firm or corporation owning, leasing, operating or controlling any flume, ditch, canal or any aqueduct conducting water across any public road or highway in this state, or across any street or alley in any unincorporated town in this state, for domestic, mining, agricultural or manufacturing purposes, shall be liable for the amount of the expenses incurred by the chair of the board of county commissioners in the construction or repairing of the bridge or culvert, to be recovered by a civil action.
[3:214:1913; 1919 RL p. 2907; NCL § 5430]