General Telephone Company of Kentucky v. Yount

VANCE, Commissioner.

A jury awarded the appellees, E. L. Yount and Clarence Campbell, damages for personal injuries under a last clear chance instruction. This appeal is from the judgment entered upon the jury verdict.

Yount and Campbell were injured when a truck owned by the appellant, General Telephone Company, and driven by its employee, Ernest Taylor, struck a wire which Yount and Campbell were attempting to string across a principal street in Midway, Kentucky.

Yount and Campbell were employed to install Christmas lights across the street. To accomplish this it was first necessary to string…