Loch Hill Construction Co. v. Fricke

Having discovered through harsh experience the truth in Poor Richard’s observation that “[w]hen the well’s dry, we know the worth of water,” B. Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac (1746), Howard R. and Sharon L. Fricke, respondents here, instituted this action in the District Court of Maryland to recover from petitioner Loch Hill Construction Company, Inc., the cost of another well to supply their new home with water. This second well was drilled following several instances in which the first well, bored at petitioner’s direction to supply water to the house it constructed and sold to…