Adams' Administrator v. Callis & Hughes

'Opinion of the Court by

Judge Ratliff

Affirming.

Irvine Adams, administrator of the estate of Chester Adams, deceased, instituted this suit in the Trimble circuit court against Callis & Hughes, a partnership, to recover for the death of his decedent, Chester Adams, who was killed by a rock thrown from a blast set off in a rock quarry. The facts are these:

The deceased and Callis & Hughes, defendants below, were each owners of a rock quarry in Trimble county, Ky., from which quarries the respective parties were engaged in procuring rock to be sold to the state highway commission for road…