Lennon v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 69 Wash. 447
• 125 P. 770
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 931

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Sewers — Defective Construction— Negligence—Evidence—Sufficiency. A prima facie case of negligence in the construction of a sewer, rendering tbe city liable for resulting damage to property, is made out, where it appears that an ordinary eight-inch tile sewer pipe 174 feet long with a drop of 90 feet was installed to convey all sewage from an upper fifteen-inch pipe of more than three times the capacity of the smaller pipe, which would subject the pipe to immense pressure in ease of stoppage, that on a previous occasion an eight-inch pipe burst in the same location, after which the city put in the eight-inch’ pipe in question under similar conditions, which again went out in practically the same place carrying earth and a bulkhead with it.</p>