Union Light, Heat & Power Co. v. Blackwell's Adm'r

STANLEY, Commissioner.

William Blackwell, employed by a construction company building a flood wall in Newport, was electrocuted by a high tension wire of the appellant, The Union Light, Heat & Power Company. We reversed a judgment rendered on a verdict for. the defendant in an action for his death in Blackwell’s Adm’r v. Union Light, Heat & Power Co., Ky., 265 S.W.2d 462. On a second trial the verdict was for the plaintiff for $50,000. The appeal is from the judgment thereon.

The facts are fully related in the first opinion. In brief, they are that the high tension wires ran over a street and…