Alabama Water Co. v. Wilson

Plaintiff kept a market for the sale of fresh meats and, to preserve his stock, had a refrigerating device to which a constant flow of water under pressure was necessary. Defendant, a public water supply company, had been furnishing the - water. The complaint was, in short, that defendant upon a certain date wrongfully failed to furnish water, so that plaintiff’s meats decayed and were lost to the extent, as the jury found, of $75.

The court correctly overruled those grounds of demurrer to the complaint which charged the complaint to be defective because it failed to allege that plaintiff’s…