Millett v. Minnesota Crushed Stone Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $4,000 damages for the reasons mentioned in the first paragraph of the opinion.
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Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $4,000 damages for the reasons mentioned in the first paragraph of the opinion. The answer among other matters alleged that the forty-acre tract of land mentioned in the complaint and the tract called the “Kletzin tract” had been and were mainly valuable for the limestone underlying the same; that in the year 1904 defendant began quarrying limestone from the tract and continued to do so until the summer of the year 1916, at which time it began quarrying from the Kletzin tract; that at the time defendant began its quarrying operations…
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
Plaintiff sues to recover damages, extending over a period of six years, from the operation of a stone quarry, a stone crushing plant, and a grinding mill, near her home. It is claimed that because of noise and jar of blasting, the noise and danger of falling rocks, the noise of steam drills and-of a steam shovel, and because of smoke and dust, the plant was a nuisance. The jury found for plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
1. The rules governing liability of the defendant are those stated fully in Brede v. Minnesota Crushed Stone Co. 143 Minn. 374, 173 N. W. 805. They need not be repeated at length…
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