Joseph Smith writes that the covered wagon carrying Willard Richards and Lorin Walker, while traveling on icy roads, "slipped and capsized and fell off the side of the bridge, 5 feet descent. Broke the carriage, some on the top and the fore axletree which we soon spliced . . .and agreed that Liburn W. Boggs should pay the damage."
[Source: http://amzn.to/originsofpower The Mormon Hierarchy - Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database (http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase)]]
wrong year; should be 1843. See HC 5:246-247 and JSP Journals 2:242.
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