Livestock Feeder Company v. Few

WILSON, Justice.

Plaintiffs sought damages for reduction in market value of land owned by them, and loss of rental value of other land leased by them, arising from defendants’ operation of a nearby cattle feed lot, alleged to constitute a nuisance.

It was alleged that cattle excreta drained into and polluted a stream flowing through, and tanks located on, plaintiffs’ property, thereby rendering the water unfit for human or animal consumption; that the waste products from thousands of cattle had filtered into the underground water stream which fed plaintiffs’ wells and springs, resulting in…