Pye Datsun, Inc. v. Gas, Inc.

Banke, Chief Judge.

The appellants, as the owners and lessees of certain premises which were destroyed by fire, sued the appellee, a distributor of propane gas, alleging that the fire was caused by its negligence. This appeal is from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the appellee.

A consulting engineer testified that the fire probably had resulted from over pressurization in a propane gas line, caused by an accumulation of debris in the line. This witness opined that an in-line filter would have stopped the debris from accumulating but testified that no such filter had ever been…