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49 Cards in this Set
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Vaughan v. Taff Vale Ry. |
NL defendant’s railroad locomotive spark destroyed plaintiff’s adjoining woods |
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Koos v. Roth |
L defendant’s intentionally set grass field firespread across property line and destroyed plaintiff’s adjoining crop—liability |
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Boynton v. Fox Denver Theaters, Inc. (Colo. 1950) |
NL (defendant’s popcorn box fire, started in alley, spread into plaintiff’s adjoining garage—no liability) |
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Guille v. Swan (N.Y. 1822) |
L (defendant ascended in a balloon over rural section of old New York and attracted large crowd that damaged plaintiff’s garden crops when defendant made emergency landing on plaintiff’s farm—liability) |
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Crist v. Civil Air Patrol, Inc. (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1967) |
NL defendant’s airplane crashed onto plaintiffs’ lawn—no liability) |
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Rylands v. Fletcher (Exch. Ch. 1866) |
L (defendants’ private reservoir burst andflooded plaintiff’s coal mine below; defendants themselves lacked knowledge ofrisk—liability |
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Tenant v. Goldwin |
L (defendant’s privy overflowed into plaintiff’sneighboring cellar—liability) |
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Carstairs v. Taylor (Exch. 1871) |
NL (plaintiffs’ rice damaged by water escaping from defendant’s rain barrel, which rats had eaten through—no liability |
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Nichols v. Marsland (C.A. 1876) |
NL (defendant’s ornamental pools overflowed duringstorm and destroyed plaintiff’s bridges—no liability) |
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Rickards v. Lothian (P.C. Austrl. 1913) |
NL (third party stopped up defendant’s sinkand flooded plaintiff’s store—no liability) |
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W. H. Smith & Son, Ltd. v. Daw |
NL (defendant’s sewage pipe burst and floodedplaintiff’s premises—no liability |
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Lubin v. Iowa City (Iowa 1964) |
L Lubin v. Iowa City (Iowa 1964) (defendant’s public water main burst and floodedplaintiff’s property—liability) |
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Bunyak v. Yancey (Fla. App. 1983) |
L Bunyak v. Yancey (Fla. App. 1983)(defendant’s manure lagoon overflowed into plaintiff’s ponds—liability) |
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McGregor v. Barton Sand & Gravel,Inc. (Or. 1983) |
L (defendant’s uphill ponds leaked water and debris onto plaintiff’s downhill property—liability) |
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Walker Shoe Store v. Howard’s HobbyShop (Iowa 1982) |
NL (defendant’s heating oil tank burst, and firespread to neighboring plaintiff’s property—no liability) |
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Delano v. Mother’s Super Market, Inc. |
NL |
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Albig v. Municipal Authority (Pa. Super. 1985) |
NL (defendant’s public reservoir burst andflooded plaintiffs’ basements—no liability |
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Transco p.l.c. v. StockportMetropolitan Borough Council (H.L. 2003) |
NL (defendant’s burst water pipe undermined plaintiff’s gas pipeline—no liability |
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Losee v. Buchanan (N.Y. 1873) |
NL (defendants’ steam boiler exploded and spreadshrapnel and destruction to plaintiffs’ neighboring building—no liability) |
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Powell v. Fall (Q.B. 1880) |
L (spark from defendant’s road train ignitedplaintiff’s premises—liability) |
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Sullivan v. Dunham (N.Y. 1900) |
L (plaintiff’s intestate hit by tree that defendants blasted—liability) |
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Davis v. Niagara Falls Tower Co. |
L (plaintiff’s museum struck by ice falling from defendant’s novel observatory tower—liability) |
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Central Trust & Savings Bank v.Toppert (Ill. App. 1990) |
NL (plaintiff’s decedent,a blasting employee, killed by premature explosion of blast he himself was setting up—no liability) |
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West v. Bristol Tramways Co. (C.A. 1908) |
L (plaintiff’s adjacent nursery plantsunforeseeably damaged by creosote fumes coming from defendants’ creosotedtracks—liability) |
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Rainham Chemical Works, Ltd. v.Belvedere Fish Guano Co. (H.L. 1921) |
L (defendants’ factory for producing highly explosive war munitions blew up damaging plaintiffs’ adjoining property—liability) |
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Musgrove v. Pandelis (C.A. 1919) |
L (C.A. 1919) (defendant’s novel car blew up, ignited plaintiff’s apartment above—liability) |
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Coxhill v. Forward (Q.B.D. 1986) |
L (plaintiff’s car destroyed by fire started bynovel liquefied petroleum gas fuel system on defendant’s Volvo—liability) |
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Kent v. Gulf States Utilities (La.1982) |
NL (plaintiff’s decedent’s aluminum rake touched defendant’s power line and electrocuted him—no liability) |
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Madsen v. East Jordan Irrigation Co. |
NL (Utah 1942) (defendant’s blast incitedplaintiff’s mother minks to eat valuable young—no liability) |
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Cambridge Water Co. v. EasternCounties Leather p.l.c. (H.L. 1993) |
NL defendants’ industrial solvent drifted 173 miles and polluted plaintiffs’ well—no liability) |
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Bolton v. Stone (H.L. 1951) |
NL cricket ball escaped from defendant’s cricket field and struck plaintiff standing by her garden gate—no liability) |
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Rogers v. Elliott (Mass. 1888) |
NL (Mass. 1888) (defendant’s church bells sent hypersensitiveplaintiff into convulsions—no liability) |
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Siegler v. Kuhlman (Wash. 1972) |
L (defendant’s gasoline tanker truck exploded and killed plaintiff’s deceased—liability) |
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Fowler v. Lanning (Q.B. 1959) |
NL (Q.B. 1959) (defendant shot plaintiff, his hunting companion—no liability |
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Miller v. Civil Constructors, Inc.(Ill. App. 1995) |
(plaintiff injured by stray bullet from defendants’ firingrange—no liability) |
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Warner v. Norfolk & Western Ry. |
NL (W.D. Va. 1991) (defendant’s train struck plaintiff’s truckat grade crossing—no liability) |
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Maximin v. Rivera (V.I. 1990) |
NL (defendant’s asphalt truck collided withplaintiff—no liability) |
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Luthringer v. Moore (Cal. 1948) |
L Luthringer v. Moore (Cal. 1948) (defendant’s fumigation gas escaped to next doorand hurt plaintiff—liability) |
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Langan v. Valicopters, Inc. (Wash. 1977) |
L (defendant’s aerially sprayed pesticides drifted across property line and spoiled plaintiffs’ organic crop—liability) |
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New Meadows Holding Co. v. WashingtonWater Power Co. (Wash. 1984) |
NL (defendant’s gaspipeline leaked and seven years later blew up plaintiffs’ house—no liability) |
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Palumbo v. Game & Fresh WaterFish Commission (Fla. App. 1986) |
NL (alligator bit plaintiff who was recklessly swimming in defendant’s alligator–infested lake—noliability) |
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Caporale v. C.W. Blakeslee &Sons, Inc. (Conn. 1961) |
L (defendant conducted massive pile–driving operations across street from plaintiff’s premises, and vibrations damaged plaintiff’s building—liability) |
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Edwards v. Post Transportation Co. (Cal. App. 1991) |
NL (defendant delivered sulfuric acid to wrong tank, which caused fumes that hurt plaintiff—no liability) |
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In re Chicago Flood Litigation (Ill.1987) |
NL (defendant city’s contractor, which was a co–defendant, negligently breached tunnel wall under Chicago River and flooded plaintiffs’ Chicago Loop buildings—no liability) |
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Pecan Shoppe of Springfield, Missouri,Inc. v. Tri-State Motor Transit Co. (Mo. App. 1978) |
NL (striker blew up defendant’s dynamite truck, damaging plaintiff’s adjacent restaurant and gas station—no liability) |
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Thomalen v. Marriott Corp. (D. Mass.1994) |
NL (plaintiffs injured by fire–eating act at defendant’s hotel—no liability) |
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Bennett v. Mallinckrodt, Inc. (Mo.App. 1985) |
L (defendant’s pharmaceutical factory leaked radioactive emissions onto plaintiffs’ adjoining properties—liability) |
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Smith v. Lockheed Propulsion Co.(Cal. App. 1967) |
L (defendant’s rocket test shook plaintiff’s neighboring water well, destroying water supply—liability) |
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Great Lakes Dredging & Dock Co.v. Sea Gull Operating Corp. (Fla. App. 1984) |
NL (defendant’s giant rock-crushing machine disturbed plaintiff’s hotel guests—no liability) |
