TORTS -ABSOLUTE LIABILITY-"RYLANDS v. FLETCHER"

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Abstract

The defendant, owner of an 11 acre plot, licensed nomadic caravan dwellers to come on the field and live there. Approximately two to three hundred people were on the land. Some of the group deposited human excrement on the adjoining lands, allowed their horses to trespass upon and foul neighboring lands, were often noisy in returning to the land, and frequently trespassed upon the neighboring land in going to or leaving the plot. Held, in an action for public nuisance, that the defendant was bound to prevent the occupants of his land from committing the acts in question. An injunction to that effect was issued on the basis of Rylands v. Fletcher. Attorney-General v. Corke, [1933] 1 Ch. Div. 89.

Recommended Citation

TORTS -ABSOLUTE LIABILITY-"RYLANDS v. FLETCHER", 31 Mich. L. Rev. 1176 (1933).
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