Ry Lands V. Fletcher

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((1868), L. R. 3 H. L. 330). ” Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas.” A person who for his own purposes brings on to his land 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 for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff’s default, or that the escape was the consequence of vis major or the act of God.
Fletcher was possessed of certain coal mines which communicated with certain old coal workings under appellants’ land. Rylands were not aware of these old workings under their land, and they had constructed on their land a reservoir. The reservoir was properly constructed, but as soon as it was filled with wafer it gave way by reason of the cavities beneath, and the water found its way into and flooded F’s mines. Held, that, although not guilty of negligence, the appellants were liable

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