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CARR v. KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY

301 S.W.2d 894 (1957)

Bobby Gene CARR, By His Father and Next Friend, Bud Carr, Appellant, v. KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY, Appellee. and Rodney Ray STURGILL'S ADMINISTRATRIX (Regina Fay Sturgill), Appellant, v. KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 3, 1957. Consolidated Cases

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. E. Reams, Cawood Smith, Harlan, for appellant.

Malcolm Y. Marshall, Ogden, Galphin & Abell, Louisville, James Sampson, Harlan, for appellee.

CAMMACK, Judge.

On January 29, 1955, Rodney Ray Sturgill was electrocuted and Bobby Gene Carr was seriously burned when a television antenna being raised by Sturgill came in contact with high tension wires of Kentucky Utilities Company. Actions by the administratrix of Sturgill's estate and by the next friend of Carr, a minor, were tried together, and resulted in a directed verdict in each case for Kentucky Utilities. The appeals are from judgments on those verdicts...

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