Gillespie v. Greene

Plaintiffs are owners of land respectively in Bangor and Kawkawlin townships, Bay county, Michigan, and not far distant from the piggery and garbage disposal plant of J. Claude Greene, d/b/a Garbage Disposal Company, defendant and sole appellant. On September 4, 1947, plaintiffs filed a bill for the abatement of the nuisance caused by defendant in the operation of a piggery and asking that he be enjoined from continuing it. The bill was dismissed as to defendant city of Bay City. Testimony showed that appellant fed some 300 to 350 hogs on the premises, to which he hauled the garbage that had…