Clark's Adm'r v. Kentucky Utilities Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

Reversing.

This action was brought by O. N. Clark, administra tor of the estate of his infant son, Alban L. Clark, against Kentucky Utilities Company, for damages growing out of alleged negligence in the construction, maintenance, and operation of its system of wires in such manner as to transmit lightning through the wires and upon the body of the decedent, thereby causing his death. At the conclusion of all the evidence defendant’s motion for a peremptory instruction was sustained and judgment entered dismissing the petition, from which judgment…