Elliott v. Swartz Industries, Inc.

The plaintiffs brought this action, to restrain the defendant from maintaining a nuisance from which they allege they sustained a special damage or injury to their health and discomfort in enjoyment of their home. The nuisance complained of was the operation of a rendering and processing plant in which dismembered portions of animals in various stages of decomposition and putrefaction were steamed in a cooker or digester, thereby causing the fats to collect or rise to the top, the “greaves” falling to the bottom and oils and by-products thus recovered. It is alleged tbat “offensive, foul,…