Savage v. Louisville Gas & Electric Co.

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The appellant, Mrs. Ethel Savage, sued the appellee, Louisville Gas and Electric Company, and the Henry Bickel Company for damages for injuries sustained when she fell in a hole in the sidewalk portion of Whitney Avenue in Louisville, which was being reconstructed by the Bickel Company. The court directed a verdict for both defendants at the close of the evidence. The appeal is prosecuted, however, against the Gas and Electric Company only.

The grade of the vehicular part of Whitney Avenue had been lowered two or three feet. A strip varying in width from three to ten…