BAXTER v. HUNTER

No. 2926.

179 A.2d 376 (1962)

Prue BAXTER and Nellie Farrell, Appellants, v. Oscar B. HUNTER, Jr., Arthur A. Morris, Karl C. Corley, Sidney P. Hunter, and 824 New Hampshire Ave., Inc., a District of Columbia corporation, Appellees.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 28, 1962.

Rehearing Denied April 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark P. Friedlander, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Mark P. Friedlander and Blaine P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Austin F. Canfield, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Richard W. Galiher and William E. Stewart, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, QUINN, Associate Judge, and MYERS, Associate Judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, sitting by designation.


MYERS, Associate Judge.

This is an appeal by two property owners from a decision in the trial court adverse to their claims that a certain private pipe line supplying water to their houses had been damaged by appellees' negligence.

Water to the homes of appellants and five other property owners was supplied through a private water line located, for an indeterminate number of years, in a public alley to the rear of their houses. Just below the water pipe was...

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