Allen & Currey Mfg. Co. v. Shreveport Waterworks Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Action by the Allen & Currey Manufacturing Company, Limited, against the Shreveport Waterworks Company. Judgment for plaintiff, -and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The plaintiffs’ lumber manufactory in the city of Shreveport was destroyed by fire, and plaintiffs bring this suit in damages for the loss against the Shreveport Waterworks Company, a private corporation having the waterworks franchise of the city of Shreveport.
The complaint is that in consequence of the neglect and failure of the plaintiff company to keep its hydrants in good order, as it was by its contract expressly obligated to do, the hydrant to which the firemen first attached their hose could not be opened, and that, but for the time lost in vain efforts to open this hydrant, and in…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Gorrell v. Greensboro Water Supply Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1899
- House v. Houston Waterworks CompanyTexas Supreme Court · 1895
- Hayes v. City of OshkoshWisconsin Supreme Court · 1873
- Howsmon v. Trenton Water Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- Paducah Lumber Co. v. Paducah Water Supply Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1889
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