Reggie Elliott v. El Paso Corporation

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A" city pipeline buried beneath a road leaked odorless natural gas which infiltrated a nearby home, causing an explosion. Residents — who were not natural gas customers — alleged, that the natural gas lacked its distinctive rotten egg smell, and that the odorant that is designed to provide the warning odor was defective because it faded. After reviewing Plaintiffs’ products-liability and assorted negligence claims against the odo-rant manufacturer, odorant distributor, and transmission pipeline, we conclude that these claims fail as a matter of…