Kentucky Utilities Co. v. Earles' Adm'r

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

Tbe question involved herein is the applicability of the attractive' nuisance doctrine in the case of a boy who was 14 years and five months of age at the time he met his death. The death of David Lee Earles resulted from his climbing upon a power line tower near the grounds of the Farley Public School in McCracken County where he was a pupil. The accident occurred after school hours on the afternoon of September 26, 1947. The power line with which the boy came in contact was 48 feet above the ground and was attached at the end of an eight foot cross-arm by means of two…