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DUNN v. JACKSON PURCHASE RURAL ELECTRIC COOP. CORP.

374 S.W.2d 190 (1963)

Dallas DUNN, Appellant, v. JACKSON PURCHASE RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE CORPORATION, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied January 31, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Lovett and Lovett, Lovett & Lovett, Benton, for appellant.

Waller, Threlkeld, Whitlow, & Byrd, Paducah, for appellee.

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Dallas Dunn received serious injuries from electrical shock while engaged in inserting a length of copper pipe into a water well. High voltage lines of the Jackson Purchase Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation ran through the top branches of a tree in the vicinity of the well. The pipe which Dunn was handling either came in direct contact with the power lines or it received an electrical charge by contact with branches of the tree which had...

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