Jennings Buick, Inc. v. City of Cincinnati

The city of Cincinnati appeals,■ having set-forth the following propositions of law;

1. “The Court of Appeals is bound by stare decisis to follow established precedent which holds that a plaintiff cannot recover for injury from a water main break unless he proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the water supplier was negligent.”

2. “The maintenance by a city of over three thousand miles of water mains is not an inherently dangerous activity to which the doctrine of strict liability would -apply.”

3. “Before a water supplier can be held strictly liable for a break in a water main, the…