Dixon v. Kentucky Utilities Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Tilford

Affirming.

Appellant’s decedent, an eleven year old girl, was electrocuted as the result of her hands having come in contact with a wire fence which had become charged with electricity from a wire transmitting electric current from appellee’s distribution plant in East London, Kentucky, to transformers. The accident occurred a few minutes after a motorist, endeavoring to escape the police, had driven off the highway and struck and broken a pole carrying the charged wire, causing it to tilt or lean in such a manner as to bring the wire into contact with a…