 | International Correspondence Schools - Architectural ironwork - 1903 - 652 pages
...refuted the claim of the owner, that the contractor was alone responsible, by saying : ' ' The general rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes,...likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril ; and if he does not do so is, prima facie* answerable for all the damage which is the... | |
 | Curtis Holbrook Lindley - Mineral lands - 1903 - 1228 pages
...negligence. Said Justice Blackburn : — " We think that the rule of law is, that the person " whe, for his own purposes, brings on his land and ' ' collects...likely to do mischief " if it escapes, must keep it at his peril; and if he does " not do so, is, prima facie, answerable for all the dam" age which is... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1040 pages
...is correctly stated by Mr. Justice Blackburn in Fletcher v. Ry- • lands, LR l Exch. 265: "We think 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 at his... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - Torts - 1903 - 460 pages
...purposes, brings on 1 Chasemore v. Richards, 7 HL Cas. 349. As to malice see id. 388, and aute, pp. 16-22. his land, and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must, by the law of England, keep it there at his peril; and if he does not, he will be answerable, prima... | |
 | George Stuart Robertson - Railroads - 1903 - 794 pages
...J., in his judgment as follows : " The person who for his own purposes brings on his lands Sect. 55. and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and, if lie does not do so, is primd facie answerable for all the damage •which is... | |
 | Francis Reynolds Yonge Radcliffe, Sir John Charles Miles - Torts - 1904 - 648 pages
...of the existence of which they were aware, though they had not ascertained where the shafts went to. 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... | |
 | Edward Beers Thomas - Negligence - 1904 - 1488 pages
...damages so caused, upon the broad doctrine that one who, for his own purposes, brings upon 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 not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1905 - 604 pages
...v. Ames, 16 Neb. 139, Tex. etc., Ry., 60 Tex. 205 (1883). case, it was judicially declared ; 187 " 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 at his... | |
 | Theodore Minot Clark - Architects - 1905 - 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 aud keeps there, anything " likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril; " and if... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1024 pages
...Myron A. Norrie, for defendant in error: A person who for his own purposes brings upon his lanrl nnd collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes is, prima facie, answerable for all damage which is the natural consequence of its escape, although-... | |
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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... 
