Johnson v. City of Winston-Salem

MORRIS, Judge.

The evidence tends to show that plaintiffs called City Hall on 8 December 1969 when they noticed the commode was slow in flushing. Three city employees and a sewer truck were dispatched to the scene where a sewer line in front of plaintiffs’ house was full of water but not overflowing. The city employees opened the sewer main but did not know what caused the stoppage which resulted in some leakage on the floor of plaintiffs’ basement. A city employee, who was the foreman of the sewer truck at that time, testified that he did not make periodic inspections before or after that…