Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 is a leading decision by the House of Lords which established a new area of English tort law. It established the rule that one's non-natural use of their land, which leads to another's land being damaged as a result of dangerous things emanating from the land, is strictly liable.
Mr Justice Blackburn gave the leading judgment.
Lord Cairns fully concurred with Mr Justice Blackburn
George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell
George William Wilshere Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell,, was an English judge.
"The Exchequer" Judge Bramwell as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, January 1876