Lewis' Adm'r v. Bowling Green Gas Light Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 73. — ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF I. O. LEWIS DECEASED AGAINST THE BOWLING GREEN GAS LIGHT CO. FOR THE WRONGFUL DEATH OF SAID DECEDENT Appeal from Warren Circuit Court. John M. Galloway, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
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CASE 73. — ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF I. O. LEWIS DECEASED AGAINST THE BOWLING GREEN GAS LIGHT CO. FOR THE WRONGFUL DEATH OF SAID DECEDENT Appeal from Warren Circuit Court. John M. Galloway, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. 1. Where defendant placed a deadly current of electricity upon an unsafe line, it is responsible for injuries occurring' by reason of the defective condition of the line, whether defendant owned the line or not. Thomas’ Adm’r v. Maysville Gas. Co., 21 Ky. Law-Rep. 1609. 2. Where defendant uses the dangerous agency of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge O’Rear
Reversing.
The Bowling Green Gaslight Company furnished the electric power for a private electric light line extending beyond the city limits of Bowling Green, to supply some suburban residents with lights for their dwellings. One of the wires got down and parted in two places. It hung from the poles and partly on a fence or tree, so that it was sagging some six or eight *614feet above the ground and alongside of the highway in front of I. 0. Lewis’ residence. The insulation was worn off the wire in many places. It had not been inspected by the gaslight company…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Thomas v. Maysville Gas Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1900
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