Densmore v. Evergreen Camp No. 147

Citations

• 61 Wash. 230
• 112 P. 255
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1320

Syllabus

<p>Nuisances — What Constitutes — Undertaking Establishments —Residence District. The maintenance of an undertaking establishment in the residence section of a city, within a few feet of residences, while not a nuisance per se, may be enjoined as a nuisance, where it appears that, although maintained with every sanitary precaution, noxious odors and gases will permeate the nearby residences, and that there is danger of infection and contagion; and notwithstanding the fact that the owner intends to occupy the second story of the building as a residence.</p>