Ridpath v. Spokane Stamp Works

Citations

• 48 Wash. 320
• 93 P. 416
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 858

Syllabus

<p>Landlord and Tenant — Nuisance—Unlawful Use by Tenant— Evidence — Sufficiency. The evidence is sufficient to show that the operation of a stamp mill in a leased storeroom, on the ground floor of a hotel building, is a nuisance which the landlord has a right to have abated by termination of the lease, and it is error to grant a nonsuit in his action of forcible entry and detainer, where it appeared that the operation of the machinery severely shook and jarred the building to such an extent as to greatly annoy the guests everywhere in the hotel, and prevent the leasing of certain rooms.</p>