Contractors of Engineering & Manufacturing of Oklahoma, Inc. v. Williams Automatic Sprinkler Co.

BARNES, Judge:

In December, 1967, one Harms, apparently as the owner of Oklahoma City’s Lincoln Lanes Building, entered into a contract to provide this building with fire protection by the installation in it of a sprinkler system to be installed by the Ap-pellee, usually hereinafter referred to as “defendant”.

After the installation had been completed and accepted by the building owner in February, 1968, freezing weather subsequently occurred in December of that year and some of the sprinkler system’s pipes in the building’s attic froze and broke open, allowing the building’s interior beneath…