Manhattan Manufacturing & Fertilizing Co. v. New Jersey Stock Yard & Market Co.
New Jersey Court of Chancery
The argument was upon a rule to show cause why an injunction should not issue to restrain the defendants from suffering or permitting any other person than the complainant to take or save any of the blood of the animals slaughtered at the abattoir of the stock yard company, at Communipaw, in the county of Hudson.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The complainant is a corporation of the state of New York, doing business at Communipaw. The defendant, the stock yard company, a corporation of this state, owns a large and extensive abattoir, or slaughter-house, at Communipaw. It has not, for some years, slaughtered animals there, but let to 'butchers the privilege of slaughtering their animals in the abattoir. Previous to August, 1870, the blood and other remains of animals thus slaughtered there by the butchers, not being removed or properly cared for, had created a stench which became a nuisance to the adjoining country,…
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