A. J. Brown & Son, Inc. v. City of Grand Rapids

{dissenting). This is an appeal from the superior court of. Grand Rapids which heard the case without a jury and rendered judgment for the city of Grand Rapids and two other defendants and against plaintiff, a merchant who incurred damages to. the agreed amount of $3,494.95 to its stock of seeds in the basement of its store caused by water from a bursted pipe of the Grand Rapids waterworks, a municipally-owned water system conducted for' gain, and the successor of the Grand Rapids Hydraulic Company, a private corporation, which built the main about thirty-three years ago when Grand Rapids was…