Gifford v. Hulett
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a bill in chancery praying IN- n injunction to restrain the defendants from maintaining and using their barn on the ground that the same was a nuisance to the petitioners. The case was heard upon bill, answer, master’s report and exceptions thereto, at the December Term, 1889. Tyler, Chancellor, sustained the exceptions of the defendants and dismissed the bill. The orators appeal.
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This was a bill in chancery praying IN- n injunction to restrain the defendants from maintaining and using their barn on the ground that the same was a nuisance to the petitioners. The case was heard upon bill, answer, master’s report and exceptions thereto, at the December Term, 1889. Tyler, Chancellor, sustained the exceptions of the defendants and dismissed the bill. The orators appeal. The defendants excepted for that the master on the trial before him received evidence of the use and condition of the barn subsequent to the service of the orators’ bill; and that the evidence of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of' the court was delivered by
Taft, J.
We consider those facts only which the master reports as existing at the time the bill was served. The exceptions to the report, therefore, become immaterial. The barn was not a nuisance per se. Do the facts reported show it was so improperly and negligently used at the time the bill was brought, that such use became and was a nuisance? This must be determined upon the facts found by the master, viz.: Horses
were kept in the barn and manure from them thrown out and allowed to accumulate within twenty feet of the orators’ dwelling : the manure…
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