State v. Jacob E. Decker & Sons

The defendant corporation was indicted by the grand jury of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, for the crime of nuisance. The indictment is challenged. The act charged is alleged to be contrary to the form of the statute in such cases made and provided, and therefore it is necessary .in the first instance to quote the terms and provisions of the statute upon .which the indictment is predicated. The statute reads:

“The erecting, continuing or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells or other…