HORTON v. UNION LIGHT, HEAT & POWER CO.


690 S.W.2d 382 (1985)

Ernest C. HORTON, Mary Horton, James Daniel Horton and Anthony Wayne Horton, Movants, v. The UNION LIGHT, HEAT & POWER COMPANY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Palmore, Henderson, Robert W. Carran, Philip Taliaferro, Covington, for movants.

Arnold Taylor, Gary J. Sergent, O'Hara, Ruberg & Taylor, Edgewood, for respondent.


LEIBSON, Justice.

In the early morning hours of December 10, 1977, the home of the movants, Ernest and Mary Horton, in Florence, Kentucky, was destroyed by an explosion of natural gas which had leaked into their house from a break that had occurred in the line outside their house at a point near the intersection of their driveway and the street. The respondent, The Union Light, Heat & Power Co., was the local gas company charged with responsibility for maintenance...

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