Bower v. Hog Builders, Inc.

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Plaintiffs owned farms to the south of and adjoining defendant’s 139-acre farm in the northern portion of Clinton County, Missouri, which it used for breeding, raising and the sale of hogs. All four plaintiffs joined in suing defendant because of a nuisance it was alleged to have created by causing noxious odors, depositing large amounts of waste in open lagoons and causing them to discharge onto plaintiffs’ properties, placing hog pens and lagoons on its land so that surface waters were accumulated and after contamination unreasonably discharged the waters onto…