Shaw v. OWEN GIN COMPANY

This suit, was brought by appellants in the chancery court for an injunction to abate an alleged nuisance and for damages alleged to have been sustained as the result of the appellee’s operation of a cotton gin during the months of September through December 1954, the cotton ginning season.

Appellants’ home was located 250 feet southwest of the incinerator used by appellees to burn refuse from the gin’s operation. Appellants offered proof by a number of witnesses that during most of the time in question the operation of appellees ’ cotton gin caused appellants ’ home and premises to be…