KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY v. TERRY


392 S.W.2d 46 (1965)

KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY, Appellant, v. Lee TERRY, d/b/a Laurel Stoker Coal Company, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

June 18, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Odear, Stoll, Keenon & Park, Lexington, William A. Hamm, Hamm, Taylor & Milby, London, for appellant.

J. Milton Luker, Luker & Luker, London, for appellees.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

The appellees, operators of a coal tipple which was destroyed by fire on the night of August 6, 1962, recovered judgment in the amount of $25,000 against the appellant, Kentucky Utilities Company, on a jury verdict finding that K.U.'s negligence caused the fire loss. The appellees had advanced two alternative theories of liability. One was that K.U. had negligently maintained in a defective condition the transformer and wires by which it supplied...

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