Bell v. A. Riggs & Bro.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

Defendants are cistern makers, who carried on that “'business on property owned by themselves and adjoining the dwelling bouse of plaintiff.

Being desirous of applying steam power to their factory, they presented a petition to the city council for permission to do so, representing that it would not injure neighboring property, and declaring their ¡intention “to confine tlie boiler used in their factory within a brick room with iron roof and doors, and the whole independent of and .away from their main factory building.” They accompanied their…