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4937 Gas utility did not owe residents a duty of care to warn or take other action regarding a malfunctioning gas furnace; even if utility’s employees should have noticed the malfunctioning when present on the premises for other purposes, utility did not install or inspect or sell the furnace to the landlord and thus came under the general rule in tort law that
one has no duty to come to the aid of another; since the utility did not create the peril, it has no duty to take affirmative action to protect another from the peril unless there is some relationship between them which gives rise to a duty to act.CitationWILLIAMS v SO. CAL. GAS CO. (Gas Poisoning) 176 CA4 591 [See Ambriz v Petrolane 49 C2 470]
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