Shepler v. Kansas Milling Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

Plaintiff sued the defendant milling company for damages because it had erected a number of grain tanks sixty feet high, situated across a public street and across a railway right of way from plaintiff’s residence in Wichita. He alleged that these tall tanks were painted white and refected the light of the afternoon sun on his front porch, to his great annoyance and discomfort, and that his house was thereby rendered unsalable, untenantable and no longer ft for residential purposes, whereby its value was reduced some $1,800, for which sum as…