Court Opinion

ID: 5411349
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 16:09:39.67965+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:49.142641
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Bischoff, J.
(concurring). I concur in the reversal of the judgment and new trial. The water mains were under the exclusive management and control of the defendant; and a leakage therefrom sufficient to inundate adjacent premises is not a matter of ordinary occurrence, if proper care in the maintenance of the mains is exercised. The fact of the leakage, therefore, gave rise to a presumption of negligence which it was the defendant’s duty to meet. Lawson Presump. Evi. (2d ed.), p. 122, Rule 19b, and cases cited; Griffen v. Manice, 166 N. Y. 188, 193, 195.
Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, with costs to appellant to abide event.