 | Law - 1869 - 492 pages
...conclusion that there was a cause of action, and that the plaintiff was entitled to damages. My Lords, the principles on which this case must be determined...simple. The defendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used that close... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 704 pages
...The Lord Chancellor says: — "The MADRAS . . ii • ii • 13 • RAILWAY Co. principles on winch this case must be determined appear to me to be extremely...simple. The defendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used that close... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 982 pages
...passages, and flooded A.'s mine. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Cairns) said, " The principles upon which the case must be " determined appear to me to be extremely simple. The de" fendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the close on " which the reservoir was constructed,... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...conclusion that there was a cause of action, and that the plaintiff was entitled to damages. My Lords, the principles on which this case must be determined...simple. The defendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawf uly have used that close... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 638 pages
...injury. In the present case in the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor says, page 338 : — " My Lords, the principles on which this case must be " determined appear to me to be extremely simple. The de" fendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the " close on which the reservoir was constructed,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Negligence - 1874 - 960 pages
...recover damages from B. in respect of this injury.1 1 " The principles," said Lord Chancellor Cairns, " on which this case must be determined, appear to me...simple. The defendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used that close... | |
 | Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes - Canals - 1880 - 788 pages
...of action, and that " the plaintiff was entitled to damages. My lords, the " principles on which the case must be determined appear " to me to be extremely...simple. The defendants, treating " them as the owners or occupiers of the close on which " the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used " that... | |
 | John Coke Fowler - Coal mines and mining - 1884 - 472 pages
...which this case must bo determined are extremely simple. The defendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully Lave used that close for any purpose for which it might in the ordinary course of the enjoyment of... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1893 - 472 pages
...was entitled to damages. My Lords, the principles on which the case must be determined appear to me extremely simple. The defendants, treating them as...reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used their close for any purpose for which it might in the ordinary course of the enjoyment of land be used... | |
 | Robert Campbell - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1894 - 868 pages
...conclusion that there was a cause of action, and that the plaintiff was entitled to damages. My Lords, the principles on which this case must be determined...simple. The defendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used that close... | |
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My Lords, the principles on which this case must be determined appear to me to be extremely simple. The defendants, treating them as the owners or occupiers of the close on which the reservoir was constructed, might lawfully have used that close for any... 
