Fortin v. Vitali

Plaintiff homeowners sought and obtained injunctive relief from the invasion of their property by an odor emanating from compost piles mixed on defendants’ farms. This is an appeal from the order of the circuit court enjoining the defendants to cease their composting operation.

Defendants are mushroom. growers in Shelby township, Macomb county, whose operations require the maintenance of large compost piles which are the source of the neighboring plaintiff homeowners’ discomfort. This compost is a mixture of straw, grain, and horse manure, a conglomeration that is mixed, fermented, remixed and…