Wilkinson v. Light, Heat & Water Co.

Citations

• 78 Miss. 389

Syllabus

<p>Waterworks. Contract with municipality. LiabiMty to property owner.</p> <p>A corporation organized to supply a city and its inhabitants with water, and which contracted with the municipal authorities to supply hydrants at a designated pressure for use by the fire department, is not liable to the owner for the destruction of a house by fire, originating in an adjoining tenement, which the firemen were unable to extinguish before it reached and consumed the house, for want of such pressure on the water. •</p>