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BALDWIN v. WIGGINS

289 S.W.2d 729 (1956)

D. C. BALDWIN, d/b/a The Lunch Box, Appellant, v. Nelson WIGGINS, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 23, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boehl, Stopher, Kilgarriff, Graves & Deindoerfer, A. J. Deindoerfer, Louisville, J. W. Knippenberg, Lexington, for appellant.

John M. Keith, Cynthiana, for appellee.

STANLEY, Commissioner.

George Pope, counterman in a Cynthiana restaurant called "The Lunch Box," owned and operated by D. C. Baldwin, sprayed or poured flammable fluid used in automatic cigarette lighters on the shirt of Nelson Wiggins, a patron, and then set it afire. Wiggins had dozed off asleep while seated at a counter where he had drunk a cup of coffee. Pope testified Wiggins had been drinking intoxicants, but he denied it. Wiggins suffered burns which necessitated...

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