UNION LIGHT, HEAT & POWER CO. v. BLACKWELL'S ADM'R


291 S.W.2d 539 (1956)

The UNION LIGHT, HEAT & POWER COMPANY, a Kentucky Corporation, Appellant, v. William BLACKWELL'S ADM'R (James B. Milliken et al.), Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing June 22, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephens L. Blakely, Marion W. Moore, Covington, for appellant.

McGarry & Rich, Sawyer A. Smith, Covington, Louis Levy, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellees.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

William Blackwell, employed by a construction company building a flood wall in Newport, was electrocuted by a high tension wire of the appellant, The Union Light, Heat & Power Company. We reversed a judgment rendered on a verdict for the defendant in an action for his death in Blackwell's Adm'r v. Union Light, Heat & Power Co., Ky., 265 S.W.2d 462. On a second trial the verdict was for the plaintiff...

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