Green River Rural Electric Co-Op. Corp. v. Blandford

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

—Affirming.

The appellee, Yird A. Blandford, was seriously injured by contact with appellant’s high-tension electric line on December 18, 1945. The amount of the verdict, $15,790, is not questioned as excessive. The primary questions are negligence and contributory negligence.

At the point of the accident the transmission line along the Owensboro and Calhoun highway ran a short way over the land of the appellee’s brother, Joe Bland-ford. There is doubt as to an easement, the appellee claiming the company was a trespasser. The point js not of material…