Kentucky Utilities Co. v. Terry

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The appellees, operators of a coal tipple which was destroyed by fire on the night of August 6, 1962, recovered judgment in the amount of $25,000 against the appellant, Kentucky Utilities Company, on a jury verdict finding that K.U.’s negligence caused the fire loss. The appellees had advanced two alternative theories of liability. One was that K.U. had negligently maintained in a defective condition the transformer and wires by which it supplied electric power to the tipple, as a result of which the fire was caused; the other was that, regardless of what caused the fire,…