Casey v. Estes

The plaintiffs, Mike Casey; his wife, Jane Casey; and his father, Jerry Casey, appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendants, Emmett Estes and his daughter, Jacqueline Marbut.1

On December 16, 1991, the Caseys were injured by a flash fire that erupted when Mike and Jerry Casey attempted to light a propane gas space heater located in the bathroom of a house that Mike and Jane Casey were renting from its owner, Emmett Estes. Mike and Jane Casey sued Estes and Marbut, alleging that they had suffered injury because, they said, Estes had misrepresented to them that the gas…