Bexar Metropolitan Water District v. Kuntscher

POPE, Justice.

The Bexar Metropolitan Water District has appealed from a judgment for Otto Kuntscher in the sum of $1,500, for damages done to the Kuntscher home by reason of water which overflowed from the District’s water storage tower. The tower is located on property near the Kuntscher home and is about one hundred feet high. On about fifteen occasions between September and December of 1952 it overflowed onto the Kuntscher home. Kuntscher complained to the District when the tower overflowed, and it would then dispatch a man to cut off the water and stop the flow The trial court found that…