{"id":207,"date":"2019-11-24T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=207"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:09","slug":"constructed-pond-on-mountainous-terrain-is-an-abnormally-dangerous-condition-that-renders-owner-strictly-liable-for-damage-caused-when-it-ruptured-after-a-storm-and-flooded-the-downhill-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2019\/11\/24\/constructed-pond-on-mountainous-terrain-is-an-abnormally-dangerous-condition-that-renders-owner-strictly-liable-for-damage-caused-when-it-ruptured-after-a-storm-and-flooded-the-downhill-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Constructed pond on mountainous terrain is an abnormally dangerous condition that renders owner strictly liable for damage caused when it ruptured after a storm and flooded the downhill property"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Montana Supreme Court held in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/juddocumentservice.mt.gov\/getDocByCTrackId?DocId=280903\">Covey v. Brishka<\/a>, 2019 MT 164, 445 P.3d 785 (Mont. 2019), that it was so obviously unreasonably dangerous to construct a 4.5 million-gallon constructed pond on a mountainous property that the owner was strictly liable for an &#8220;abnormally dangerous condition&#8221; when a storm caused a cascade of boulders and water onto the property lower down the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/easements\/\" rel=\"tag\">Easements<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/nuisance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Nuisance<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/water-rights\/\" rel=\"tag\">Water Rights<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montana Supreme Court held in\u00a0Covey v. Brishka, 2019 MT 164, 445 P.3d 785 (Mont. 2019), that it was so obviously unreasonably dangerous to construct a 4.5 million-gallon constructed pond on a mountainous property that the owner was strictly liable for an &#8220;abnormally dangerous condition&#8221; when a storm caused a cascade of boulders and water onto the property lower down the hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,50,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easements","category-nuisance","category-water-rights"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}