Belmar Drive-In Theatre Co. v. Illinois State Toll Highway Commission

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• “[T]o constitute a nuisance, the act, structure or device complained about must cause some injury *** and must work some material annoyance, inconvenience or other injury to the person or property of another.” (Emphasis added.)
• “[T]o constitute a nuisance, the act, structure or device complained about must cause some injury *** and must work some material annoyance, inconvenience or other injury to the person or property of another.” (Emphasis added.)
• “So far as injury to the person is concerned, it is held that in deciding whether a particular annoyance is sufficient to constitute a 7 nuisance the criterion is its effect upon an ordinarily reasonable man,—that is, a normal person of ordinary habits and sensibilities ***.”

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