Strasser v. State Farm General Insurance Co.

OPINION

OSBORN, Justice.

This case involves damage to a house from a leak in a water line in a bathroom. It was alleged that the leak was very small and impossible to detect and that it permeated the foundation of the walls through earlier settlement cracks and also through erosion and soaking of the subsoil around and under the foundation, and as a direct and proximate cause of said water infiltration into the natural foundation cracks and surrounding foundation areas, the foundation gave way and caused the walls to crack and require replacement. Suit was filed seeking recovery under a fire…