Borsvold v. United Dairies

This chancery dispute arose between vigorous partisans of 2 separate essentials of human existence — food and sleep.' On ' one side the unhappy chancellor was faced with the economic need of a bustling dairy to.-.start its milk trucks in the earliest hours of the morning. On the other side he was confronted by a plea for some relatively uninterrupted rest from the.home owners in the immediate neighborhood.

The trial judge may yell have had an ancient mariner’s views in mind: . .

“Oh sleep! it is a gentle’ thing,

Beloved from pole to pole!” *

for he ruled those activities of the dairy which…