Kentucky Power Co. v. Davis

MILLIKEN, Judge.

The one and a half story frame home of the Davises burned down about 8:00 a. m. ■on a fair day, November 7, 1958, when the ■outside temperature was near freezing and no heating equipment was in service in the house. Maggie Davis was finishing washing the breakfast dishes in her detached kitchen, heated by a coal-burning range, when her three-year old grandson ran in to tell her the house was on fire. She testified that the fire was on the opposite or lower side of the home, about twelve feet from the electric meter, and ran down along the lead wire or cable to the meter box.…