Harris v. Mackintosh

This is a bill in equity, in which the plaintiff alleges that the defendant is carrying on a noxious and offensive trade, that of wool-pulling and the washing of sheep-skins, at a factory in Dedham, on the bank of Charles River, thereby corrupting and polluting the waters of the river, to the nuisance of the plaintiff, who is the owner of a lot of land on the stream below the factory, which lot he purchased for the purpose of building a house and otherwise improving the same. The injury complained of proceeds from the disagreeable odors attending the defendant’s business, which are alleged to…