King v. South Kentucky Rural Electric Co-Operative Corp.

VANCE, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered as the result of a directed verdict for appellee.

Appellant instituted action against the appellee, South Kentucky Rural Electric Co-Operative Corporation, for damages re-*794suiting from a fire alleged to have originated from defective electrical wires installed by appellee.

Immediately before the discovery of the fire, witnesses noticed a ball of fire or an electric arc on a utility pole approximately thirty feet from the lumber mill. The wires from the pole to the mill were smoking but no eyewitness testified that the fire started at…