Arundel Supply Corp. v. Cason

The locale is that part of Prince George’s County between Andrews Air Force Base and the southeastern boundary of the District of Columbia. Some of the appellees live in District Heights; some live in Capital Heights. Lying generally between those two communities is the 16 acre tract upon which Arundel began washing and screening gravel in 1947. Over the years, and at least as early as 1959, residents of the area complained about the noise, the dust, the mosquitoes, and the tract’s unfenced and unguarded ponds, but their complaints fell upon deaf ears. In August 1970 the appellees, claiming…