Givens v. Van Studdiford

This is an action for damages against defendant, for permitting a nuisance to be established and maintained on defendant’s premises, by which the value of plaintiff’s adjoining premises was injured, and the rents which would otherwise have been derived from them was lost. There was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff. The case has been here before, and is reported in 4 Missouri Appeals, at page 498.

The judgment was rendered on November 28, 1881. The motion for a new trial filed at the October term was overruled on May 1, 1882. There is nothing in the record as to any continuance of the…