FARMER v. KENTUCKY UTILITIES CO.


642 S.W.2d 579 (1982)

Elva Skidmore FARMER and Roy Farmer, her husband, Movants, v. KENTUCKY UTILITIES COMPANY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

December 14, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Greene, Jr., Harlan, for movants.

Rice & Huff, Harlan, Leslie W. Morris, II, Stoll, Keenon & Park, Lexington, for respondent.


STERNBERG, Justice.

In 1978, Elva Skidmore Farmer, one of the movants, acquired a small tract of land from her mother. In 1923, 55 years prior to the purchase of this property by movant, the respondent, Kentucky Utilities Company, constructed a transmission line which overhangs a portion of this property. The wires are attached to two poles which, themselves, are located on lands adjacent to the subject property but not...

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