Miller v. Carnation Company

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that one is liable for trespass “irrespective of whether he thereby causes harm to any legally protected interest of the other,” and must only set in motion the events which caused the intrusion
• interpreting Restatement (Second) of Torts § 158 (1965) and finding that “landowner who sets in motion a force which, in the usual course of events, will damage property of another is guilty of a trespass on such property”
• a failure to remove chicken manure from chicken houses, resulting in the multiplication of flies that intruded onto a neighbor’s property, was sufficient to establish trespass
• flies attracted by chicken waste

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).