East Orange Lumber Co. v. Christian Feiganspan

For many years, the Mattison Lumber Company was engaged in the lumber business in East Orange. Its yard adjoined the defendant’s ice manufacturing plant. Power in the defendant’s plant was generated by the use of four oil burning Diesel engines. The exhausts from these engines were pointed in the direction of the plaintiff’s assignors lumber yard, and soot and unconsumed fuel oil damaged the lumber in stock. The right of action for damages before suit was assigned by the lumber company to Katherine B. Mattison and E. A. Gordon & Company, and by them assigned to the East Orange Lumber Company,…