Lead v. Inch
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Three actions in the district court for St. Louis county; the Lead and Schulze actions to recover $2,000 damages each, and the Gazett actioñ to restrain defendants from using and maintaining the barn in question for the stabling of horses, from allowing the barn to give off a stench, and to enjoin the use of indecent and obscene language by the men employed at the- barn, and to recover $2,000 damages.
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Three actions in the district court for St. Louis county; the Lead and Schulze actions to recover $2,000 damages each, and the Gazett actioñ to restrain defendants from using and maintaining the barn in question for the stabling of horses, from allowing the barn to give off a stench, and to enjoin the use of indecent and obscene language by the men employed at the- barn, and to recover $2,000 damages. Defendant Inch answered separately in each case, and alleged that the barn had been in constant use as a horse bam for at least fifteen years; that at all times since defendant had occupied it,…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
These actions were brought to recover damages alleged to have been suffered by plaintiffs in consequence of a nuisance maintained by defendant upon premises adjacent to those occupied and owned by them. They were consolidated on the call of the calendar in the court-below and tried together; the Lead and Schulze actions being submitted to a jury, and the Gazett action to the court, save as to the question of damages.
In the two actions submitted wholly to the jury, verdicts were returned for the respective plaintiffs; in the Gazett action a verdict assessing plaintiff’s damages at the sum of…
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- Bohan v. Port Jervis Gaslight Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1890
- People v. Detroit White Lead Works Corp.Michigan Supreme Court · 1890
- August Berger v. Minneapolis Gaslight Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
- Oehler v. LevyIllinois Supreme Court · 1908
- Wahle v. ReinbachIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
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