Waterworks Litigation.
Former Senator L. J. Martin has just started a suit against the A. Wyckoff Wood Pipe Company, of Elmira, N. Y., to recover $4,500 on a bond which will expire November 1. It is alleged by the borough that the company furnished faulty pipe last year during the construction of the municipal water plant at Branchville, N. J. The bond was given to protect the town against knotty and leaky pipe. Since the completion of the plant, it is charged, at least twenty flaws in the pipe line have been discovered and the leakage therefrom has reduced the supply considerably. The pipe company will have ten days to file a brief before the suit is listed.
Claiming that drinking the city water gave him typhoid fever, a claim for $2,500 damages has been filed against the city of Rochester, N. Y., by Harry Randall, a resident of that city. He alleges that he drank the water before the city authorities gave warning of its impurity and charges that they were negligent in permitting the drinking supply to become contaminated.
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