Livingston v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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• denying injunctive relief for an alleged anticipatory nuisance when the petitioners could not show to a certainty that a nuisance would result from plans to develop a hog confinement facility
• Iowa Supreme Court construed the term “school” in a zoning ordinance to include a private preschool or nursery
• “[T]hat a thing is unsightly or offends the aesthetic sense does not ordinarily make it a nuisance or afford grounds for injunctive relief. ” (emphases added)
• discussing only injunctive relief on a claim of “anticipated nuisance”
• “Like many other courts, we have said zoning is an exercise of the police power delegated by the state to the municipality and such delegated power must be strictly construed. . . . A zoning ordinance should not be extended by implication to prevent a use not clearly prohibited.”

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