Louisville Water Co. v. Scholtz

Opinion op the Court bt

Judge Hobson

Reversing.

Scholtz and Vogt, as partners, contracted with the city of Louisville to put in a sewer on Broadway in the year 1908; and to do this had to dig a ditch six and a half feet wide and from ten to fifteen feet deep. The six inch water main of the water company ran parallel with the ditch. The main was not straight; at some places it was two feet from the ditch and at others it protruded over on the ditch. The contractors shored up the earth with plank to keep it from caving in during the digging of the ditch. There were three breaks of the water main…