Nassr v. COMMONWEALTH NASSR

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under “well established” common law principles property owners could be liable, regardless of their own fault, for a public nuisance caused by lessors of the property that poured waste on the ground which posed risks of groundwater contamination and on-site ignition
• noting in hazardous waste cleanup case that \costs\ are \not the proper measure of damages under an unjust enrichment theory of recovery\ but, rather, that \the proper measure of recovery for [unjust enrichment] is the reasonable value of the benefit conferred\
• plaintiff whose lessee contaminated land with “liquid lagoon” of explosive hazardous waste could not recover against Commonwealth, which entered to clean site
• where one party renders services to another with the expectation of payment and the other party, as a reasonable person, ought to have expected to pay for the services, a court may infer the latter’s obligation to pay
• analyzing claim under section 115

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).