Adams v. Commissioners of Trappe

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that we have consistently described public nuisance as requiring “an injury to the public at large or to all persons who come in contact with it”
• action for an injunction to require a property owner to remove a gasoline pump, erected without a required permit, from the sidewalk
• “to engage in any form of business in defiance of laws regulating or prohibiting [a] business constitutes a nuisance per se”
• “A nuisance in fact is an act, occupation, or structure, not a nuisance per se, but one which becomes a nuisance by reason of the circumstances, location, or surroundings.”
• “It has been held that to engage in any form of business in [defiance] of laws regulating or prohibiting the business constitutes nuisance per se…”
• all unauthorized permanent encroachments on public streets for private use are public nuisances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).