Consolidated Contractors, Inc. v. Wilcoxen

SIMS, Justice.

On this appeal the parties will be referred to as they appeared in the circuit court. Plaintiff was the building contractor and defendants were the plumbing .contractors with the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the construction of a three-story dormitory at the Kentucky State College for Negroes in Frankfort. Plaintiff sued defendants for $3,698.20 damages caused by the alleged negligence of defendants in letting water escape from the plumbing in the basement and flooding it, damaging certain building material that plaintiff had stored there. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s proof…