Explain whether the following situations amount to trespass against land and whether the loss suffered can be recovered: a) A firm of builders was engaged to pull down a chimney but left rubble on an adjoin roof. The rubble blocked a down-pipe and, after a rainstorm, flooding occurred on the adjoining property b) A landowner next to a coal mine was able to enter a natural tunnel on his land and travel under the property boundary. He entered the tunnel and proceeded to dig coal from the mine workings.

Explain whether the following situations amount to trespass against land and whether the loss suffered can be recovered: a) A firm of builders was engaged to pull down a chimney but left rubble on an adjoin roof. The rubble blocked a down-pipe and, after a rainstorm, flooding occurred on the adjoining property b) A landowner next to a coal mine was able to enter a natural tunnel on his land and travel under the property boundary. He entered the tunnel and proceeded to dig coal from the mine workings.

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