National Telephone Company v Baker

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1893
Date1893
CourtChancery Division
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11 cases
  • Read v J. Lyons & Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • October 18, 1946
    ...v. Fletcher (sup.) it was water, in Rainham Chemical Works v. Belvedere, [1921] 2 A.C. 465, it was explosive matter, in National Telephone Company v. Baker, [1893] 2 Ch. 186, it was electricity, in Northwestern Utilities v. London Guarantee and Accident Company, [1936] A.C. 108, it was g......
  • Lupton (HM Inspector of Taxes) v F.A. & A.B. Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • October 21, 1971
    ...are instantly concerned, because it illustrates clearly, I think, what I have been trying to say-National Telegraph Co. v. Baker[1893] 2 Ch. 186. Major premise: the rule in Rylands v.Fletcher (1866) L.R. 1 Ex. 265; (1868) L.R. 3 H.L. 330. Minor premise: the defendant brought and stored elec......
  • Manchester, Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of v Farnworth
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • November 28, 1929
    ...or to become inventors themselves (for which Vaughan v. The Taff Vale Raihvay (5 H. and N. 679) and ( National Telephone Co. v. Baker 1893, 2 Oh. 203) were cited), nor were they prevented from abandoning tall chimneys with strong natural draught in favour of shorter chimneys with slower me......
  • Colquhoun (The State) v Darcy and Other
    • Ireland
    • High Court (Irish Free State)
    • December 11, 1936
    ...1 K. B. 171. (2) [1928] 1 K. B. 411. (3) [1902] 2 I. R. 349. (4) 16 L. R. Ir. 150. (5) L. R. 10 Q. B. 355. (6) [1909] 1 K. B. 57. (7) [1893] 2 Ch. 186. (8) I. R. 7 C. L. (9) 8 Q. B. D. 82. (10) 5 East. 345. (11) 1 Moo. P. C. (N. S.) 411. (12) L. R. 2 H. L. 239. (13) Grindrod's Compendium of......
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