State v. Taylor

The information charged the defendant with urinating in a spring, of water near a public highway, out of which many persons in the vicinity, and travelers along the road, were accustomed to use water, thereby rendering the spring unfit for use, and indecent, and to the obstruction of the free use of the water thereof by the citizens of the State. The information was quashed, on the ground that it did not charge a public offense.

JD. JE. Williamson, Attorney General, for the State.

Our statute, perhaps, gives as accurate a definition of the term nuisance, as understood at common law, as can be…