Ellis v Loftus Iron Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtDivisional Court
Year1865
Date1865

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20 cases
  • Wormald v Cole
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 26 February 1954
    ...it was well established in the Fourteenth Century. 7 The action lies apart altogether from negligence, and as Mr Justice Brett put it in Ellis v. Loftus, which is reported in Law Reports lo Common Pleas at page 10, the mere act of an animal belonging to man may be a trespass inasmuch as the......
  • Fitzgerald v E. D. and A. D. Cooke Bourns (Farms) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 29 May 1963
    ...or to other animals upon it; see ( Lee v. Riley 1865 volume 18 Common Bench (New Series) page 722); ( Ellis v. Loftus Law Reports (1874) volume 1 Common Pleas, page 10). The duty arises because, in the modern idiom, the damage is foreseeable, and the owner of the trespassing cattle is exe......
  • Bocardo SA v Star Energy UK Onshore Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 28 July 2010
    ...animals or wires, is imprecise and it is mainly serviceable as dispensing with analysis: cf Pickering v Rudd [1815] 4 Camp 219 and Ellis v Loftus Iron Co (1874) LR 10 CP 10. In none of these cases is there an authoritative pronouncement that 'land' means the whole of the space from the cen......
  • Read v J. Lyons & Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 18 October 1946
    ...a case of pure trespass to property, and thus constitutes a wrong without any question of negligence. See per Lord Coleridge C.J. in Ellis v. Loftus Iron Co. (1874) L.R.10 C.P.10 at p. 12. The circumstances in Fletcher v. Rylands did not constitute a case of trespass because the damage was ......
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