Soap Corporation of America v. Reynolds

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit, brought by plaintiffs, home owners in the vicinity of defendant’s soap factory, was for an injunction restraining defendant from operating it as a nuisance.

The claim was that after the defendant had, on November 1, 1947, begun the operation of its factory, it started manufacturing raw soap in the plant and in the procesa permitted foul and obnoxious vapors and odors to arise and escape from the premises, causing plaintiffs irreparable damage in their persons and property.

The defendant, admitting the operation of the soap' factory but denying that it emitted…