Ferriter v. Herlihy

The plaintiffs and the defendant own adjoining parcels of real estate in the city of Westfield. The plaintiffs with their children have their home in the single house on their land. The defendant lives on the first floor of his house and lets the upper story. He conducts in the basement of his house, which is about twenty-five feet distant from the plaintiffs’ dwelling, a retail milk business in which he now employs eight men and three automobile trucks. When he began business there in 1923 he sold about thirty quarts of milk a day. At the time of the trial he delivered to his customers…