Preston A. Parkinson v. The California Company, a Corporation, and Stanolind Oil & Gas Company, a Corporation

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs, as owners of a cafe and bar in the town of Jackson, Wyoming, brought this action against defendants as the manufacturers of liquid propane gas, for personal injuries and property damages caused by an explosion. The complaint alleged that the defendants’ 1 failure to properly odorize certain liquid propane gas at the time of sale and delivery to a purchaser, who in turn sold it to plaintiffs, was negligence and the proximate cause of the explosion. The trial court sustained a motion to dismiss, and judgment was entered for the defendants. Applying the…