McGill v. Pintsch Compressing Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Gourt. — Hon. N. W. Macy, Judge. Action to enjoin defendant from continuing its business of manufacturing compressed gas, and for damages. A decree was entered restraining it from operating its plant without equipping it with a smoke consumer and its boiler with a muffler, and damages were allowed. The defendant appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, C. J.
— The defendant is and has been for the ten years last past engaged in the production of compressed gas which it supplies to all the railroad companies whose lines enter Council Bluffs or Omaha. Immediately south and- west of the plant are the extensive railroad yards essential to the business of a railroad center, and in other directions dwelling houses. The dwelling of plaintiff, occupied by a tenant, is within one hundred and thirty-five feet to the northwest of it, with'nothing intervening save a small coal shed. The plant consists of four furnaces, constructed of fire brick, with five or…
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