Crawford v. Union Cotton Oil Co.

Plaintiff, appellant, sued defendant, appellee, in an action on the case to recover damages alleged to have been caused by defendant’s maintenance and operation of a nuisance in tbe shape of a cotton oil mill. It is alleged:

That defendant’s mill was constructed in a neighborhood theretofore set apart to residential purposes, that its sheds and buildings are unsightly — hut that is of no legal consequence— and that “during the operation of said plant the machinery therein creates loud, constant, unreasonable, and discomforting noise, and that unpleasant and unwholesome and noxious gases and…