Mitchell v. Cohen

REDMANN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment on jury verdict dismissing her suit against NOPSI, the supplier of piped natural gas, for injuries to her 22-month-old son from a fire in a bathroom (in which were both a can of gasoline and a water heater that used natural gas supplied by NOPSI). We affirm.

We must affirm because there is no evidence (and none was offered but excluded) of any fault on NOPSI’s part that contributed to the fire.

Plaintiff constructs a theory that NOPSI knew that water vapor from the gas condensed in the gas lines, causing water. A NOPSI serviceman testified…