Hoitt v. Lee's Propane Gas Service, Inc.

DEKLE, HAL P., Associate Judge.

This is an unusual and very interesting negligence case in which the plaintiff (Appellant) was working as a waitress in a restaurant when defendant’s truck delivering propane gas to the restaurant outside, caught fire from an alleged break in the hose. Thereafter it resulted in an explosion which “was a terrific noise; it scared the life out of everybody” including the plaintiff in the restaurant who was startled by it, ran and collided with another employee also frightened by the explosion and who “was darting out” from the kitchen into the service area where…