Yearsley v. City of Pocatello

The respondents, (plaintiffs below), obtained a judgment before the court, without a jury, for $4000 against the appellant, defendant below, for damages to respondents’ residence alleged to have been occasioned by water escaping negligently from a leak in the water mains of the appellant’s municipally owned and operated water system which undermined the foundations and basement walls of the residence causing the walls to sag, settle and crack and the basement floor to crack.

This case was before this court on appeal once before and was reversed and remanded for a new trial. Yearsley v. City of…