 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...  The Central Law Journal - Page 2431920Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 672 pages
...his own purposes, brings on his land aud collects and keeps there anything likely to do niiichief, if it escapes must keep it in at his peril, and if he docs not do so is primd facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1382 pages
...HL 330, 339, 340, and approved by this court in Shipley v. Fifty Associates, 106 Mass. 104, 198, is that " the person, who for his own purposes brings...it in at his peril ; and, if he does not do so, is primd facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape." This rule... | |
 | John Coke Fowler - Coal mines and mining - 1872 - 512 pages
...that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps anything that is likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so, is primd facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence if it escapes. He can excuse... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 788 pages
...person, who for his own purposes brings on his land, and collects and keeps there anything likfily to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do so, is primS facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 802 pages
...substantially thus: Whoever, for his own purposes, brings on his land, and collects and keeps there any thing likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril. He illustrates this proposition by putting various cases in which a party is damnified without any... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Negligence - 1874 - 960 pages
...damage so caused, upon the broad doctrine that one who, for his own purposes, brings upon his land, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to' do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is primd facie answerable for all the damage which is the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 410 pages
...judgment in Fletcher v. Eylands (2), delivered by Blackburn, J.: " We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on...in at his peril, and if he does not do so is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse himself... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 682 pages
...flowed through some old workings into plaintiff's mine, and so caused it to be flooded. It was held that the person who for his own purposes brings. on...likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril. The case of Nichols v. Marsland, in 44 LJ Bep. (Ex.), was of a similar kind, but a different... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Liability (Law) - 1875 - 976 pages
...approvingly quoted by the courts of this country, as follows: "We think that the true rule is, that he who, for his own purposes, brings on his lands, and collects and keeps there, any thing likely to do mischief, if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and if he does not do... | |
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