Hastings v. Taylor

Plaintiff in her bill charges that the defendant, a near neighbor, kept on her premises dogs which were so noisy as to become a nuisance. She asks that the defendant be required to keep these dogs in some other place and that a mandatory injunction to that effect issue.

By consent, evidence was heard ore terms. Pier complaint was sustained, the presiding chancellor being of opinion that these dogs were addicted to “undue howling and barking.” A mandatory injunction issued, from which the defendant has appealed.

Without threshing over old straw, it suffices to' say that the decree of a…