Strict Liability and Negligence

Strict liabil ity and

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Brown v. Kendall
Dog Fight. strict liability v. negligence question of due care fault was established as a necessary element of plaintiff
Flectcher v. Rylands
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
Transco v. Stockport Metro Borough Council
Nuisance based on one occupier of land interfering with the right and enjoyment of land by another occupier
Read v. J. Lyons & co.
No claim if took place wholly on the land of a single occupier
Rickards v. Lothian
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
Nichols v. Marsland
Acts of God. Flooded when ornamental pools broke. Storm to be an act of GOD.
Cambridge Water Co. v. Eastern Counties Leather PLC
Toxins spill in river from leather company
Carstairs v. Taylor
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.
Re Flood Litigation
Refused to apply Rylands on the ground that the defendants had not engaged in abnormally dangerous activities
Brown v. Collins
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
Losee v. Buchanan
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
Turner v. Big Lake Oil Co.
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
Powell v. Fall
Locomotive caught hay rick on fire internalize the cost of new inventions cost of doing business
River Wear Commissioners v. Adamson
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.