Pagni v. City of Sparks

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, J.:

The main question raised by this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in vacating the jury’s verdict for the plaintiffs and granting the defendants a new trial.

This is the third appeal recently reaching this court in which damages have been sought by reason of alleged negligence of the municipal defendant and its contract garbage haulers in the operation of its trash and garbage dump, it being asserted in each case that the dump was so operated as to constitute a nuisance with resulting damage to the respective plaintiffs. In City of Reno v.…