Township of Kalamazoo v. Lee

This bill was filed to restrain an alleged public nuisance. The defendant owns and occupies 21 acres of land 2% miles southeast of the city of Kalamazoo, on which he maintained what is commonly called a piggery. It is charged in the bill that he hauls to this land large quantities of garbage consisting of refuse animal and vegetable matter from restaurants in the city of Kalamazoo; that he dumps it upon the ground for the pigs, which usually are from 30 to 100 in number, that the pigs consume a part of the garbage, and that the remainder putrifies and becomes a “filthy, loathsome mass;” that…