Acculog, Inc. v. Peterson

HOWE, Justice:

Plaintiffs Acculog appeal from a judgment of “no cause of action” which was entered after a jury returned a special verdict. Acculog’s 1977 four-wheel-drive Ford E250 Quadravan, estimated at a value of $7,000, caught fire and was destroyed later in the same day that defendant Peterson Ford had installed a new fuel filter to cor*729rect overheating in the engine. Also destroyed in the fire was Acculog’s geological equipment consisting of a Mount Sopris bore-hole logging unit mounted on the vehicle and stipulated to have a value of $41,-687.95. Acculog claimed that the destruction of…