Smejkal v. Empire Lite-Rock, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Trespass and private nuisance are separate fields of tort liability relating to actionable interference with the possession of land.” (Internal quotation marks and citation omitted.)
• “One important advantage of the action grounded on the public nuisance is that prescriptive rights, the statute of limitations, and laches do not run against the public right, even when the action is brought by a private person for particular harm.” (quoting RESTATEMENT (SECOND

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).