Hauser v. Kraeuter Co.

Kraeuter Company are tool manufacturers in Irvington. Their forge shop contains twenty-eight drop hammers, varying in size from four hundred to two thousand pounds, falling weight. The noise from the hammers is claimed to be a nuisance to habitation. Vibration is also charged, but it is established that, sensibly and materially, there is none. The noise is of the intensity to be expected from a dozen and more heavy drop hammers, all in action. That the complainants, and complaining witnesses called by them, are annoyed and distressed in their homes there can be no doubt. Nor can there be any…