MARSHALL v. CHEVRON OIL CO.
Personal Injury. The plaintiff’s were burned in a propane explosion that was traced to a source inside their trailer. Several eye witnesses confirmed that the initial explosion was inside. Plaintiff’s blamed it on our client, for filling up a defective propane tank they had purchased for $2.00 at a flea market. They had chained it to the outside of the trailer, where it too eventually exploded. Every eye witness for our side was a drug-addled, desert dweller, so I had my fingers crossed that they would show up, even under subpoena, when the plaintiffs accepted our CCP 998 offer on the first day of trial. My favorite fact in this case is that the plaintiff admitted that when his wife was on fire the first thing he did was move his pick-up truck away from the flames.
