State v. Chicago Great Western Railroad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Chickasaw District Court. — Hon. A. N. Hobson, Judge. Indictment for maintaining stockyards in such manner as to canse a public nuisance. From a judgment on verdict of guilty, tbe defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWithROW, J.
I. The defendant was indicted on the charge of maintaining a nuisance, and upon trial a judgment of conviction was entered, and it appeals.
The indictment charged it with using and maintaining a certain inclosure, pen, or pens, near the dwelling houses of citizens, in which inclosures cattle, hogs, and calves were confined, from which arose noxious exhalations, offensive and unwholesome smells, and with the noises made by the hogs and calves at night, becoming dangerous to the health, comfort, and property of the people residing in the immediate neighborhood, thus causing a common and public…
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- Davis v. SawyerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- Herring v. WiltonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1906
- State v. WignallSupreme Court of Iowa · 1910
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