LYNCH v. KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY


328 S.W.2d 520 (1959)

Grace Carol LYNCH, an Infant under 14 years of age, suing by and through her father, Dudley Lynch, as next friend, Appellant, v. KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellee. Ethel LYNCH, Appellant, v. KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

October 30, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ezart F. Ashcraft and Earl F. Ashcraft, Irvine, for appellants.

H. M. Shumate, Shumate & Shumate, Irvine, Robt. M. Odear, Stoll, Keenon & Park, Lexington, for appellee.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

The Kentucky Utilities Company maintained a power line pole, with a supporting guy wire, along the highway close to the South Irvine Grade School. It is not made clear whether the pole and wire were on the highway right of way or on the school playground, but in any event children played around the pole and wire and frequently waited at that point for the school buses. One afternoon, after school,...

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