Jones v The Festiniog Railway Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1865 |
| Date | 1865 |
| Court | Court of the Queen's Bench |
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5 cases
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Gore v Stannard (trading as Wyvern Tyres)
...bereft of current authority or validity if it be viewed, as it ordinarily is, as a statement of a comprehensive rule (see, e.g., Jones v. Festiniog Railway Co. (1868) LR 3 QB at 736 per Blackburn J: "the general rule of common law".) Indeed, it has been all but obliterated by subsequent jud......
- Norah Read v J. Lyons & Company, Ltd
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Westco Storage Ltd. et al. v. Inter-City Gas Utilities Ltd. et al., (1989) 59 Man.R.(2d) 37 (CA)
...the gas company from liability for lack of proof that the negligence caused the explosion. Cases Noticed: Rylands v. Fletcher, L.R. 3 Q.B. 733, not appld. [para. McGhee v. National Coal Board, [1972] 3 All E.R. 1008 (H.L.), refd to. [para. 48]. Wilsher v. Essex Area Health Authority, [1988]......
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Hallick v. Doroschuk, (1985) 41 Sask.R. 151 (QB)
...of an opposite party which supports the allegations of the opposite party (see paragraphs 16 to 18). Cases Noticed: Rylands v. Fletcher, L.R. 3 Q.B. 733, refd to. [para. 1]. O'Sullivan v. Turk, [1947] 1 W.W.R. 673, affd. [1947] 2 W.W.R. 672, refd to. [para. 16]. Collins v. Belgian Dry Clean......
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1 books & journal articles
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Tort law, risk, and technological innovation in England.
...40). Justice Blackburn, dissenting, would have opted for strict liability in the newer case too. (42) Jones v Festiniog Railway Co (1868), LR 3 QB 733 [Jones], (43) See Jonathan Morgan, 'Technological Change and the Development of Liability for Fault in England and Wales" in Miquel Martln-C......