Benscoter v. City of Springfield

Mr. Presiding Justice Reynolds

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit in equity brought by a number of individual property-owner plaintiffs and by Springfield Township, a municipal corporation, against the City of Springfield, Illinois, a municipal corporation, for injunction against an alleged nuisance. The original complaint was against the defendant City of Springfield and the Springfield Sanitary District, a municipal corporation, which includes the territory of the City of Springfield. The nuisance complained of was that there were offensive odors and dangers to health, as to…