Hyatt v. Wiggins

STATEMENT BY THE COURT

Appellants brought this suit to recover damages from appellee, alleged to have been caused by his failure to properly construct, in accordance with a written contract therefor, a concrete culvert or conduit of reinforced steel for draining the surface water across and off a building site in the city of Little Rock.

Appellee is a building contractor, and was engaged in buying lots and erecting houses and other improvements thereon and selling them as improved. He owned lots 10, 11 and 12 in block 3 of Stifft's Addition to the city, and erected and made improvements on each…