Horton v. Union Light, Heat & Power Co.

LEIBSON, Justice.

In the early morning hours of December 10, 1977, the home of the movants, Ernest and Mary Horton, in Florence, Kentucky, was destroyed by an explosion of natural gas which had leaked into their house from a break that had occurred in the line outside their house at a point near the intersection of their driveway and the street. The respondent, The Union Light, Heat & Power Co., was the local gas company charged with responsibility for maintenance and repair of the line.

Mr. and Mrs. Horton and two of their children, James and Anthony, were in the house at the time of the…