Curran v. Foley

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellee had owned and occupied as a family residence and for renting purposes, for upward of twenty-five years, a house and lot on West Fourteenth street, Chicago.

From about 1888, the appellant began to occupy a lot adjoining that of appellee with a machine shop and factory, and this action was brought, in 1892, to recover damages for the depreciation occasioned thereby to appellee’s property, because of noise and vibration and the casting of cinders, smoke and water upon appellee’s premises.

A verdict for six hundred…