Kellogg v. Mertens

This is an appeal from a judgment permanently enjoining defendant from conducting rodeos and wild west shows on his property.

The nine plaintiffs are residents of a sub-burban, residential and farming community known as Ransville, which is located in Rapides Parish some two miles, more or less, outside the city limits of the City of Alexandria, and the residential properties of the several plaintiffs either adjoin or are located in the near vicinity of a 165 acre tract of land owned by the defendant and on which tract defendant resides, farms and operates a dairy.

In the early fall of 1946…