Hunter-Smith Co. v. Gibson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Chancery-Court of the city of Roanoke, in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the defendant. Plaintiff assigns error. .
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
This action was brough by the Hunter-Smith Company, Inc., to recover of the defendants, Gibson and others, the owners of a three story building in the city of Roanoke, damages alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants in permitting the freezing and bursting of a pipe in the third story of such building.
*583It appears that on the 28th of February and the 1st of March, 1914, the weather was extremely cold, by reason whereof the water pipe in the third story of the building was frozen, and on the night following the pipe burst and the water ran down through the building to the…
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