Naccari v. Rappelet
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; Jérome Louis Gaudet, Judge. Action by Edward J. Naecari against Rene Rappelet and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Judgment rendered for plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
This is an injunction suit to abate an alleged unlawful nuisance dangerous to public health. The petition alleged that the defendants, truck farmers on Grand Isle, in the parish of Jefferson, were using as a fertilizer dead fish, and shrimp shells, which, decaying under the surface of the soil, gave forth a foul and unbearable stench, bred flies and sickness, and menaced the public health.
Defendants admitted that they used a fertilizer commonly known as “shrimp bran or dust,” consisting of the ground hull of the shrimp after the extraction of the meat, which said fertilizer was buried at…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Board of Health v. Maginnis Cotton MillsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1894
3Cited by3 opinions
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