Martin Bldg. Co. v. Imperial Laundry Co.

The complainant to this bill owns a 12-story office building in the city of Birmingham, known as the Martin Building, located on the northwest corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-Third street. To the east of this building and within about 100 feet thereof, respondent operates a laundry with a steam boiler using soft coal as a fuel, and from the smokestack there is emitted considerable amount of smoke and soot which complainant insists finds its Way into a large number of its offices, thus endangering the health and comfort of its tenants, causing a loss of some of the tenants and a threatened…