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KENTUCKY & WEST VIRGINIA POWER CO. v. GOODMAN

257 S.W.2d 553 (1953)

KENTUCKY & WEST VIRGINIA POWER CO. v. GOODMAN.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied May 22, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baird & Hays, Pikeville, J. W. Howard, Prestonsburg, for appellant.

Woodrow W. Burchett, C. Kilmer Combs, Prestonsburg, for appellee.

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Dewey Goodman, while engaged in clearing brush and undergrowth from a strip of mountain land across which ran a high-tension electric line of the Kentucky and West Virginia Power Company, chopped down a small tree, the top of which fell against one of the wires. Goodman either had hold of the tree with his left hand as it started to fall, or grabbed it as it began to fall, or took hold of it after...

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