Louisville Gas & Electric Co. v. Koenig

HENRY MEIGS, Special Commissioner.

Frank Koenig, Jr., an employee of Koenig Brothers industrial plumbers, was burned while working on an interior gas line in a customer’s plant after employees of appellant, supplier of natural gas to this plant, had found a leak at a point in the plant’s gas lines inside of Louisville Gas & Electric’s main inlet valve and meter. A series of valves is located along various lines beyond this point, the purposes of which are to permit flow of either natural gas or bottled gas to the plant’s heaters. The most critical of these is a three-way valve by means of…