Opinion ID: 1664197
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Strict-Liability Claim

Text: The landowners contend that the trial court erred in entering a summary judgment in favor of the City on their strict-liability claim because, they argue, the migration of methane placed the landowners within a zone of danger ... in immediate risk of physical harm from the potential ignition of a flammable gas. The landowners' brief provides no legal authority to support the argument that the operation of a landfill and the risk of harm a landfill creates constitute an ultra-hazardous activity. When a brief states general propositions but fails to make specific application of those propositions to the rulings assigned as error, it is waived and will not be considered on appeal. Welch v. Hill, 608 So.2d 727, 728 (Ala.1992) (citations omitted). We therefore do not deal further with the extent to which a strict-liability claim under the circumstances here presented might escape the bar of limitations, and we affirm the trial court's summary judgment as to that claim.