Boyle, Trustee v. Pittsburgh

Stadteeld, J.,

Opinion by

This is an action in trespass because of damage caused to the basement of the plaintiff’s church by the breaking of a four inch municipal water line under the public street at the side of the church. The line which broke connected the six inch main under the middle of the street with a fire hydrant at the sidewalk. The leakage into the plaintiff’s church from this broken water pipe began during the first week of January, 1936, and continued without interruption up until the final bursting and flooding of the basement of the church on the night of February 22, 1936. The…