Jedneak v. Minneapolis General Electric Co.

Hilton, Justice.

Action to enjoin and to recover damages for the maintenance of a nuisance. Defendant, the Minneapolis General Electric Company, is a public utility whose power plant is located adjacent to the Mississippi River in northeast Minneapolis in an area zoned by the city for heavy industrial use. Plaintiffs, who since 1923 have lived nearby, claim that cinders unnecessarily escape from defendant’s smokestacks onto plaintiffs’ premises, interfering with their physical enjoyment of life. A similar claim is made as to dust blown from defendant’s coal piles, -which for many years have…