A. DaPrato Co. v. City of Boston

This is an action to recover for damage to property caused by the negligence of the city “in the construction, maintenance, inspection and repair” of its water system. The plaintiff occupied the basement of premises at 33-35 South Eden Street in the Charlestown district for the storage of plaster of Paris statuary and molds used in its manufacture. The rear of the building abutted on Tibbett’s Town Way, a street eighty-five to ninety feet in length and paved with cobblestones. Running lengthwise in the street at a depth of about six feet was a six inch cast iron low service water main with…