Jarnagin v. Fisher Controls International, Inc.

Plaintiff appeals the district court’s ruling granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment. He argues the district court erred in finding LP gas regulators were improvements to real property and thus that his action was barred by the statute of repose set forth in Iowa Code section 614T(11) (1995). We affirm.

I. Background Facts and Proceedings.

On February 17, 1994, the plaintiff, Brian Jarnagin, was injured when he attempted to relight the pilot on the LP gas furnace located in his home. The furnace received LP gas from a line connected to an LP tank located on Jarnagin’s property outside…