Smith v. City of Baton Rouge

The Baton Rouge Water Works Company as assignee, is under contract to supply the City of Baton Rouge, the other defendant, with water; and, for that purpose, is authorized under the contract to take up mains and pipes in the streets of the city. A child of plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, two years and six months old at the time, was drowned in a cut or excavation which had been made by the Baton Rouge Water Works Company in Julia Street of said city for the purpose of repairing a leaking valve in the main of the company’s • water pipe.

This excavation was approximately four feet, five inches…