Harvard Furniture Co. v. City of Cambridge

In this action of tort for negligence the declaration contained two counts which differed only in that the first alleged negligence in the construction, maintenance and operation of the defendant’s water supply system, while the second alleged negligence in making repairs upon that system. The plaintiff occupied as a tenant a store and the cellar beneath it on the southerly side of Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Its merchandise was damaged in January, 1944, by water that flowed into its cellar through the cellar wall along Massachusetts Avenue. The first such flowing began on January 11,…