King v. Travelers Insurance Company

OPINION

MONTOYA, Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs, hereinafter called “Appellants,” from a summary judgment rendered in a suit which was brought to recover damages under a homeowners’ insurance policy issued by the defendant insurance company, hereinafter called “appellee.”

The parties stipulated that a galvanized iron water line underneath the concrete floor slab, somewhere between the hot water heater and the kitchen in Appellants’ home, broke or ruptured, allowing the escape and discharge of water which eroded the soil and proximately caused abnormal settling damage from the pressure…