Buckingham v. Plymouth Water Co.

Citations

• 142 Pa. 221
• 21 A. 824
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 726

Syllabus

<p>1. In an action against a water company for negligence in supplying impure water to its consumers, resulting, as was alleged, in the sickness and death of plaintiff’s children from disease, there being no submissible evidence of culpable negligence on the part of the defendant it was not error to order a nonsuit.</p> <p>2. An offer to show that, before the sickness of the plaintiff’s children, there were typhoid-fever patients near the banks of small streams emptying into a river some distance above the point whence the company drew a portion of its supply, did not tend to establish negligence on the part of the defendant.</p>