Crawford v. Central Steam Laundry

Citations

• 78 Wash. 355
• 139 P. 56
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1023

Syllabus

<p>Nuisance — Private Nuisance — Laundry — Evidence — Sufficiency. Tbe abatement of a laundry in a residence section of a city, as a private nuisance, is not warranted, where the laundry had been operated at the location in question for twenty years without objection by the city authorities, the ten complaining residents were not similarly affected, some objecting to odors, others to smoke and soot, others to loss in rental values, while other residents in the same neighborhood testified that they suffered no inconvenience and there was evidence that the premises were in a sanitary condition, and that the falling off of rentals was due to general reduction in rental values; since the enjoyment of one’s premises must be sensibly diminished by a private nuisance, and it is not enough that the business shocks the tastes or diminishes the rental values.</p>