Virginia Partners, Ltd. v. Day

MILLER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Garrard Circuit Court entered upon a jury verdict.

The facts are these: On August 2, 1980, appellee, Robert Day, was tortiously injured in Garrard .County, Kentucky, as the result of the negligent act of the appellant, Virginia Partners, Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Virginia Partners), a limited partnership organized under the laws of Florida, the master state.1

At the time of the accident, Day was a bystander observing acid being injected into an abandoned oil well on his farm. (The well was subjected to acid treatment with the hope of…