Hawkins v. Sanders

Hawkins who owns a hotel building in Ypsilanti, filed his bill to restrain defendant, who owns a neighboring store building, from maintaining a wooden awning in front of his premises. The complainant’s theory seems to be that this is a public nuisance, which injuriously affects him specially.

The awning is, so far as we can see, no more of a nuisance than it would have been if made of any other material, and it was not, as shown from the evidence, such a structure as any court would regard as a public injury or grievance. It was such as was used habitually in other parts of Ypsilanti as well…