Empiregas, Inc., of Belle Mina v. Suggs

This appeal is from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding the plaintiff $33,400 in an action for personal injuries and property damage. Walter Suggs was injured and his bus was destroyed, apparently when the relief valves on two propane gas tanks inside the bus discharged and the escaping gas caught fire. He brought this action against Empiregas, Inc., of Belle Mina, which, he alleged, had overfilled the tanks. Empiregas appeals, arguing that Suggs was contributorily negligent as a matter of law, that he did not prove the amount of the damage to his bus, and that he did not prove that…