Kentucky-Ohio Gas Co. v. Bowling

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson

Reversing.

This action is to recover damages for creating and maintaining a private nuisance to the annoyance of the owner and his family and depreciating the market value of his home.

For ten or twelve years next before its institution, Ed. Bowling owned, and he and his family occupied, a home about two and a half miles from the corporate limits of the city of Ashland, in the outlying portion of the city, in what is known as Hood’s Creek and Hood’s Creek Road. It is a five-room cottage, with a cement block foundation placed below the surface. It was…