In re the Sentence of Holt

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• discussing 1857 version of statute and stating that “[o]ur statute does not define a nuisance, but simply provides a remedy for certain injuries arising from a nuisance at common law”
• holding blacksmith shop spewing ashes, dust, and cinders into the air constitutes nuisance to adjacent 1 On average, at least one new individual was present on Townsend’s Property every day for three years’ worth of May-November rental periods. 16 property
• “A lawful as well as unlawful business may be carried on so as to prove a nuisance.”
• “A lawful as well as unlawful business may be carried on so as to prove a nuisance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).