Strict Liability

Question 1

Trespassing Animals

Answer 1

Livestock-Owner is generally strictly liable for damage. Household-Owner is not strictly liable for damage

Question 2

Attacking Animals

Answer 2

Wild Animal-Strict Liability

Domestic-Strict liability if owner knows or has reason to know of vicious dangerous propensities.

Question 3

Abnormally dangerous activities

Answer 3

An activity that involves a substantial risk of serious harm to person or property no matter how much care is exercised.

Question 4

determining whether an activity is abnormally dangerous the court will consider

Answer 4

Existence of a high degree of some harm, Likelihood that harm will be great, Inability to eliminate the risk by exercise of reasonable care, Extent to which the activity is not a matter of common usage.