CITY OF LOUISVILLE v. LOUISVILLE SEED COMPANY


433 S.W.2d 638 (1968)

CITY OF LOUISVILLE, a municipal corporation, Appellant, v. LOUISVILLE SEED COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied December 6, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard S. Goldstein, Chester A. Vittitow, Jr., Asst. Directors of Law, Louisville, Eugene H. Alvey, Director of Law, Louisville, for appellant.

Joseph E. Stopher, A. J. Deindoerfer, William P. Swain, Boehl, Stopher, Graves & Deindoerfer, Henry J. Stites, Stites & Stites, Louisville, for appellee.


OSBORNE, Judge.

This is a suit by the appellee, Louisville Seed Company, against the City of Louisville for damages. It grows out of the city's negligence in its failure to install gates in the municipal flood wall system during the flood of March, 1964. The action was tried before a jury and judgment entered upon its verdict in the amount of $81,771.43. The appeal before us is upon this judgment.

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