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· 5/8/1956

Gorman v. Sabo

Citations

  • 122 A.2d 475
  • 210 Md. 155
  • 1956 Md. LEXIS 448

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that, to recover for nuisance, the disturbance alleged must be “offensive or inconvenient to the normal person”
  • nuisance created by defendant playing blaring radio music day and night
  • \There is no doubt that punitive damages may be recovered in [this] case.... The applicable law was correctly put to the jury by the trial court in his charge. He told them the Sabos must prove their case `by a fair preponderance of the evidence.'\
  • “There is no doubt that punitive damages may be recovered in [this] case .... The applicable law was correctly put to the jury by the trial court in his charge. He told them the Sabos must prove their case ‘by a fair preponderance of the evidence.’”
  • “If noise causes physical discomfort and annoyance of persons of ordinary sensibilities, tastes and habits and seriously interferes with the ordinary comfort and enjoyment of their homes, and thus diminishes the value of the use of their property rights, it constitutes a private nuisance.”
  • radio playing at an excessive and unreasonably high volume

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Judges: Bruñe, Dseapeaine, Coeeins, Henderson, Hammond

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