Kentucky Utilities Co. v. Howard

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

On Angnst 23, 1919, the appellant dng a hole, abont 4 1-2 feet deep and something more than two feet in diameter, in one of the public streets of the town óf Evarts, intending to place therein one of its electric light poles. At about nine o ’clock that night .the appellee fell into the hole, and for injuries so received he recovered a judgment herein fpr $1,000.00.

The grounds assigned for reversal are, that the court erred in giving and refusing instructions, and that the verdict-is excessive. ...

Instruction No. 1 reads as follows:

“The court…