KENTUCKY POWER COMPANY v. KILBOURN


307 S.W.2d 9 (1957)

KENTUCKY POWER COMPANY, Appellant, v. Hardy KILBOURN et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willis W. Reeves, Hazard, Stephen Combs, Jr., Whitesburg, Smith, Reed & Leary, Frankfort, for appellant.

French Hawk, Harry M. Caudill, Whitesburg, Bert T. Combs, Combs & Combs, Prestonsburg, for appellees.


STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment for $23,500 for the destruction of a storehouse and residence and their contents by fire alleged to have resulted from the appellees' negligence in supplying electric current of such a low voltage that it caused appliance motors to overheat and set fire to the storehouse.

The fire was discovered about one o'clock in the morning of March 5, 1955. Appellant concedes...

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