Kentucky Power Company v. Kilbourn

STANLEY, -Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment for $23,-500 for the destruction of a storehouse and residence and their contents by fire alleged to have resulted from the appel-lees’ negligence in supplying' electric current of such a low voltage that it caused appliance motors to overheat and set fire •to the storehouse.

The fire was discovered about one o’clock in the morning of March 5, 1955. Appellant concedes here that there was evidence that the evening before the lights in the town of Blackey were dim, and that the appellees’ and other appliance motors were hot because of low…