James Ray Duncanson v. the State of Texas

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• concluding that expert testimony was not required to establish causation between the presence of propane and plaintiffs injuries where the record and the jury’s common knowledge permitted the jury to draw reasonable infer- enees
• no expert was necessary to demonstrate a causal connection between propane tanks and the origin of a fire
• “[I]t is a matter of such common understanding and knowledge that propane gas is an explosive and flammable substance that expert testimony on that fact, even if helpful, was not essential to the plaintiffs case.”

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