Mountain Water Co. v. Davis

OpinioN op the Oouet by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

By this action filed in the Pike circuit court by appellee and plaintiff below, Phoebe Navis, against appellant and defendant below, Mountain Water Company, plaintiff sought to recover from the defendant the sum of $3,000.00 as damages because of its failure to furnish sufficient water pressure, as required by its franchise eon-*194tract with the city of Pikeville and under which it had constructed a system of water works therein, to extinguish a fire which destroyed a house owned by plaintiff on September 20, 1919.

Defendant, in its answer, denied the…