Buffums' v. City of Long Beach

MR. JUSTICE Pro Tem. JAMISON Delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an action for damages caused by the breaking of appellant’s water main, thereby flooding the basement of respondent’s building and causing loss and injury to said building and to the property of respondent contained therein.

Briefly stated, the facts are as follows: During the years 1923 and 1924 appellant was supplying water to the City of Long Beach, and for that purpose was maintaining an eight-inch water main in the alley in the rear of respondent’s building, through which it distributed water to its consumers. On the…