Dobbs v. Wiggins

The plaintiffs — Larry Dobbs, Frances Dobbs, Wayne Richard, and Lorena Richard — filed a complaint against their neighbor, Donald Wiggins, to enjoin a private nuisance caused by numerous dogs kenneled on Wiggins’s property. On July 21, 2009, the circuit court of Jefferson County, Illinois, entered a judgment against Wiggins that ordered him to decrease the number of dogs in his possession to no more than six and to take all the steps necessary to adequately suppress any noise caused by any barking dogs. Wiggins filed a timely notice of appeal of the circuit court’s judgment. On appeal,…