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Brown v. Kendall
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Dog Fight.
strict liability v. negligence
question of due care
fault was established as a necessary element of plaintiff
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Flectcher v. Rylands
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Flooded waters from reservoir to neighbors land,
Natural or aritifical
Assume the risk when you put possible items on land
Law of escapes: strictly liable for property damages incurred when he brings something aritfical on his land its escapes
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Transco v. Stockport Metro Borough Council
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Nuisance based on one occupier of land interfering with the right and enjoyment of land by another occupier
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Read v. J. Lyons & co.
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No claim if took place wholly on the land of a single occupier
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Rickards v. Lothian
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Crazy guy stops up fourth level bathroom
unreasonable for the law to regard those who install and maintain such a system of supply as doing so at their own peril
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Nichols v. Marsland
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Acts of God.
Flooded when ornamental pools broke.
Storm to be an act of GOD.
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Cambridge Water Co. v. Eastern Counties Leather PLC
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Toxins spill in river from leather company
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Carstairs v. Taylor
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Rats ate thru box that ruined all defendants property
Rylands v. Fletcher did not apply because the defendant did not bring the water into the structure for his purposes alone.
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Re Flood Litigation
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Refused to apply Rylands on the ground that the defendants had not engaged in abnormally dangerous activities
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Brown v. Collins
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Horses got spooked and hit post
Unless everyone was liable for all damage done by a superior force overpowering him and using him or his property as an instrument of violence
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Losee v. Buchanan
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Boiler exploded and was projected
Most of the rights of property as well as of person in the social state are not absolute but relative
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Turner v. Big Lake Oil Co.
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Storage of water is a natural or necessary and common use of the land, necessarily within the contemplation of the state and its grantees when grants were made
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Powell v. Fall
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Locomotive caught hay rick on fire
internalize the cost of new inventions
cost of doing business
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River Wear Commissioners v. Adamson
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Boat was abandoned and it crashed into dock.
Owner of every vessel shall be answerable to the undertakers for any damge done by such vessel and the master.
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