Steffens v. Keeler

Defendants appeal as of right the order granting plaintiffs’ motion for summary disposition pursuant to MCR 2.116(C)(9) and (10) and denying defendants’ motion for summary disposition. Defendants claim that the trial court erred in finding that § 3 of the Right to Farm Act (rtfa), MCL 286.473; MSA 12.122(3), did not preclude plaintiffs’ private nuisance claim and in finding that defendants’ pig farm constituted a nuisance in fact.

Plaintiffs moved into their house on February 7, 1985. At that time there was a vacant dairy barn and a house on the property across the street from their home.…