 | Frederick Pollock - 1894 - 842 pages
...answerable for escape arising from any latent defect which ordinary prudence and skill could not detect " We think that the true rule of law is, that the person...brings on his lands, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if it does not do... | |
 | Robert Campbell - 1894 - 868 pages
...court of Exchequer Chamber, where he states the opinion of that court as to the law in these words : " We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - 1894 - 576 pages
...Court of Exchequer Chamber, where he states the opinion of that court as to the law in these words: "We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at... | |
 | 1894 - 388 pages
...adjoining land, flooded the passages of the plaintiff's mine. The case is generally cited as deciding that "the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril; and if he does so, is prima... | |
 | 1894 - 1120 pages
...of Exchequer Chamber, per Blackburn, J., gave judgment for the plaintiff on the following ground : " We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purpose, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes... | |
 | Theodore Minot Clark - 1894 - 424 pages
...gave judgment for the plaintiff. This principle was described by the court as follows: " The general " rule of law is that the person who for his own purposes " brings on his land, and collects and keeps there, anything "likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at... | |
 | Theodore Minot Clark - 1894 - 432 pages
...judgment for the plaintiff. This principle was described by the court as follows : " The general " rule of law is that the person who for his own purposes " brings on his land, and collects and keeps there, anything " likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - 1895 - 628 pages
...presentations of the extreme English view is by Blackburn, J., who says in Fletcher v. Rylands, LR 1. Ex. 279, 280, 281, 282, — "We think that the true...brings on his lands, and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it' in at his peril, and if he does not do... | |
 | Thomas Beven - 1895 - 1072 pages
...Lord Cairns, C., Rule fommreading at length Blackburn, Js, statement, in which he said : B^bum J , " We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who, i?*'?0 PI. • 1-11.-, -1 Exchequer for his own purposes, brings on Ins land and collects and chamber... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - 1898 - 744 pages
...Chamber, in Fletcher v. Sy lands (14 WR 799, at p. 801 ; LR [1 Ex.] 265, at p. 279), where it is said : ' We think that the true rule of law is that the person...purposes, brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril : and, if he does not do... | |
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We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so is prima facie answerable... 
