City of Holdenville v. Moore

HUNT, Justice.

This is an action by Paul Moore and Jewel Moore, his wife, to recover property damage against the City of Holdenville, Oklahoma, defendant, alleged to have been sustained by reason of sewage from defendant’s main sewer line backing up into their basement through ’ laterals connected with the main sewer lines and overflowing their basement in which was kept and located carpets, and other household supplies, causing damage thereto and to the floor and walls of the basement.

Plaintiffs in their petition, in substance, allege: that on the 19th day of July, 1953, plaintiffs, who at…