Thompson v. Trane Company

LAVENDER, Justice.

The case involves a claim that a home gas-fired furnace manufactured by the ap-pellee The Trane Company and sold to the plaintiffs by the appellee Standard Refrigeration & Engineering Company was defective in that it leaked gas. It was further alleged that the gas leak somehow ignited and melted a control valve inside the furnace with the result that the fuel supply became uncontrolled and caused a damaging fire to plaintiffs’ new home. Another defendant — a sub-contractor of Standard (Climate Air Conditioning, Inc.) — was also joined. The primary question here involves the…