Lone Star Gas Co. v. Lemond

The court of appeals held in this case that it was reversible error for the trial court to add the following sentence to the standard jury charge for marketing defects: “A seller’s duty to warn arises only where the dangers to be warned of are reasonably foreseeable and are such that a consumer cannot reasonably be expected to be aware of them.” 897 S.W.2d 378. We disagree because, under the record before us, any error was harmless.

Phares Lemond was injured and his wife killed in an explosion that resulted when natural gas which had accumulated in the crawl space under their home was ignited…