Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Mayfield Water & Light Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Appeal from Craves Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Judge Turner.
Reversing.
In May, 1912, Lemuel Magness, an employe of the. Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company, was*, killed in Mayfield, Kentucky, by an electric current transmitted to the wire.of the telephone company from the wires of the Mayfield Water & Light Company, the latter-being a corporation engaged in furnishing electricity to the citizens of that place.
His personal representative instituted an action against the two companies jointly, wherein it was alleged that he came to his death by reason of certain joint concurrent negligence upon the part of said…
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