West Kentucky Coal Co. v. Kuykendall's Admr.

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson

Reversing.

The West Kentucky Coal Company and the Sturgis Electric Light Company operate an electric light plant in Sturgis, Kentucky. They had a crew of men consisting of Otis Hoover, as foreman, William Kuykendall and Byers Nunn, who for two or three months had been engaged in wiring and installing electric light fixtures in dwelling houses in Sturgis; and on March 28, 1911, were so engaged in the residence of a Mr. Simpson. On that afternoon Hoover directed Kuykendall and Nunn to attach some wires which were to lead out of the Simpson house to the…