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· 11/3/1871

Campbell v. Ranson

Citations

  • 21 Va. 405

How courts have described this case

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  • “When a cause of action rests upon a statutory duty imposed upon a class of persons the complaint must contain facts which bring the defendant within the statutory class.”
  • \When a cause of action rests upon a statutory duty imposed upon a class of persons the complaint must contain facts which bring the defendant within the statutory class.\
  • statute allowed forester to recover firefighting costs only from the “owner, easement holder, operator, and person in possession” of land from which fire spread, and forester failed to allege that defendant was any of these

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Judges: Moncure

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