The court in the famous Rylands case held the owner of an artificial reservoir responsible in

damages under a theory of strict liability because

A) creating a reservoir is an inherently dangerous activity
B) dams have a propensity for bursting
C) other reservoirs have burst before
D) the owner used dynamite to create the reservoir


A

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