Hayes v. Torrington Water Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for furnishing the plaintiff with water infected or contaminated with typhoid-fever germs, and thereby causing her to suffer with that disease, in alleged violation of the defendant’s contract obligations and of its legal duty, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County, where the plaintiff was non-suited in a trial to the jury before Case, J., from which judgment she appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The complaint alleges that the defendant supplies the town of Torrington with water for domestic purposes, under a charter which gives it power to protect its water-supply from pollution, and that the plaintiff, who lived in a house supplied with water through defendant’s pipes, contracted typhoid fever from drinking the same. The negligence alleged is in not taking steps to protect the water-supply from pollution, and in failing to adopt any measures for purifying the water before turning it into the pipes for distribution, and in not ascertaining the unwholesome condition of the water, and…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Green v. Ashland Water Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1898
- New Haven Water Co. v. RussellSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
- Danaher v. . City of BrooklynNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
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- Boguski, Admr. v. City of WinooskiSupreme Court of Vermont · 1936
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