FIELDS v. WESTERN KENTUCKY GAS COMPANY


478 S.W.2d 20 (1972)

Otis FIELDS, Appellant, v. WESTERN KENTUCKY GAS COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 4, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford Walters, Williams, Walters & Miller, Paducah, for appellant.

Tom Marshall, William E. Scent, Paducah, for appellee.


REED, Judge.

The plaintiff appeals from the action of the trial judge who directed a verdict for the defendant at the conclusion of all of the evidence in this personal injury action. Otis Fields, the plaintiff, was an employee of Presley Plumbing and Heating Company, a firm engaged in the performance of a contract to lay sewer pipe. Fields was instructed by his employer to make repairs to part of a manhole known as an "invert." Fields went down into the sewer manhole...

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