Bruce v. Wallis

Hunstein, Justice.

Delana Bruce appeals from an order abating a nuisance on her property, challenging the propriety of the relief granted. Finding that the trial court manifestly abused its discretion, we reverse.

1. Ralph Wallis owns property with a pond located on it for raising fish. Wallis’s property is across a county road from Bruce’s farm, where she has trained, bred, and boarded horses for 25 years. Wallis filed a complaint against Bruce to abate a nuisance contending that manure on her property created noxious and offensive odors and that the manure drained into Wallis’s pond and…