City of Owensboro v. Knox's Admr.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 43 — Action by H. L. Knox’s Admr. against City of Owensboro’ fob Personal Injury to Plaintiff’s Intestate. APPEAL FROM DAVIESS CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment fob Plaintiff and Defendants Appeal. This is an action first brought by H. L. Knox by bis mother and next friend for injuries received hy him in coming in contact with a live wire charged with electricity, hy which he was. • burned, and having since died of natural causes, it wias revived in the name of his administrator.
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Case 43 — Action by H. L. Knox’s Admr. against City of Owensboro’ fob Personal Injury to Plaintiff’s Intestate. APPEAL FROM DAVIESS CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment fob Plaintiff and Defendants Appeal. This is an action first brought by H. L. Knox by bis mother and next friend for injuries received hy him in coming in contact with a live wire charged with electricity, hy which he was. • burned, and having since died of natural causes, it wias revived in the name of his administrator. He was a colored hoy about fifteen years old and resided with his mother. His earning capacity did not exceed $1 per…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE O’REAR
Affirming.
The city of Owensboro owns and operates its own electric light plant, conducted both for public and commercial lighting. Appellee’s intestate, a child some fourteen years of .age, while passing along one of appellant’s streets, inadvertently and • innocently came in contact with a guy wire running from the top of a pole, along which were strung the wires for conducting the electric current, to a short post set near the sidewalk. By reason either of imperfect insulation or other improper and neglectful failure’ to keep the wires from coming in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McLaughlin v. Louisville Electric Light Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1896
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- Smith's Administratrix v. Middlesboro Electric Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1915
- Escambia County Electric Light & Power Co. v. SutherlandSupreme Court of Florida · 1911
- Memphis Consolidated Gas & Electric Co. v. LetsonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1905
- Mangan's Admr. v. Louisville Electric Light Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1906
- City of Danville v. VanarsdaleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1932
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