Lynch ex rel. Lynch v. Kentucky Utilities Co.

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The Kentucky Utilities Company maintained a power line pole, with a supporting guy wire, along the highway close to the South Irvine Grade School. It is not made clear whether the pole and wire were on the highway right of way or on the school playground, but in any event children played around the pole and wire and frequently waited at that point for the school buses. One afternoon, after school, an eight-year-old pupil of the school, Grace Carol Lynch, took hold of the guy wire with one hand and swung around. As she did so, her hand slid down the wire and became impaled…