Acculog v. Keith Peterson

HOWE, Justice: Plaintiffs Acculog appeal from a judgment of "no cause of action" which was entered after a jury returned a special verdict. Acculogs 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 correct overheating in the engine. Also destroyed in the fire was Acculogs 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 the van and equipment resulted in a loss of profits estimated by it at over $33,000. On the day of the fire Acculog did not carry a fire extinguisher in its van.