Trimbo v. Minnesota Valley Natural Gas Co.

Nelson, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff. George L. Trimbo, doing business as St. Peter Texaco Service, commenced this action against the Minnesota Valley Natural Gas Company to recover damages on account of a fire occurring at midnight on November 17, 1958, in the Texaco gas station at St. Peter, which plaintiff had operated since 1955. The evidence introduced at the trial is considered in the light most favorable to plaintiff, as it must be, in the following statement of facts.

An overhead unit space heater was suspended from the roof of the gas station about 8…