Wagner, Admr. v. Village of Waterbury

The plaintiff as administrator of the estate of his deceased son brings suit in tort under the statute against the defendant village for alleged wrongful neglect or default causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. It is alleged that defendant was engaged in the private business of furnishing water to the inhabitants of the village under contracts for payment of certain fixed rates to the village for the use of such water, that it permitted a certain water pipe under Stowe Street in the village to become out of repair and to leak, as a result of which water penetrated to the surface of the…