Nicholson v. Connecticut Half-Way House, Inc.

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• halfway house for parolees would not be enjoined as nuisance where fears of community residents, although genuinely felt, rested completely on supposition
• halfway house for parolees would not be enjoined as nuisance where fears of community residents, although genuinely felt, rested completely on supposition
• \[a] fair test of whether a proposed use constitutes a nuisance is the reasonableness of the use of the property in the particular locality under the circumstances of the case\ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• ‘‘[a] fair test of whether a proposed use constitutes a nuisance is the reasonable- ness of the use of the property in the particular locality under the circumstances of the case’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).