Flynn v. Canton Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions

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1. ““Here the nuisance, if such it be, was not caused or ci-eated by the act of the party sued. The ice, the occasion of the injury, was not on the property of the defendants, nor was it placed on the pavement through the slightest instrumentality or agency on their part. It was not even formed from water discharged or flowing from their premises. If from carelessness or negligence in the use or management of water, or waterpipes in their buildings or on their premises, the water from which the ice was formed, was suffered to escape or flow from their premises into the street and over the pavement, they would stand in a different position, because they would then have participated in causing the nuisance or obstruction. But there is no such feature in this case. Upon the facts in the record before us, the ice on which the plaintiff fell was formed solely and exclusively by the action of the elements.” 40 Md. at pages 326-327.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jennings v. United States