Spokane Stamp Works v. Ridpath

Citations

• 48 Wash. 370
• 93 P. 533
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 870

Syllabus

<p>Injunction — Actions for — Against Abatement of Nuisance— Evidence — Sufficiency. It is error to grant an injunction against the abatement by a landlord of a nuisance on leased premises, where it appears that the tenant was maintaining a nuisance by the operation of heavy, noisy machinery in a storeroom of a hotel which jarred the building and disturbed the guests of the hotel in a manner not contemplated by the lessor, the lease giving no such right, and the burden of proof being on the plaintiff to show authority for such operation.</p>