Harlan Water Company v. Carter

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

A 'brick building owned by tbe appellee, J. B. Carter, who was tbe plaintiff below, was destroyed' by fire on December 28, 1925, and, alleging that the value of tbe building was $10,000, tbe plaintiff brought this action against tbe Harlan Water Company to recover that sum on tbe ground that tbe defendant’s failure to supply a. sufficient pressure of water to enable tbe city fire department to extinguish tbe fire was tbe proximate cause of the loss. By an amended petition it was alleged that, in addition to tbe fact that no water was in tbe…