Traube v. Freund

How courts have described this case

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

• seller had no control over pesticide used by its customer, so seller not liable for nuisance when pesticide polluted customer's neighbor's lake
• “the absence of a manufacturer’s control over a product at the time the nuisance is created generally is fatal to any nuisance” claim; citing City of Bloomington
• “FIFRA preemption clearly does not turn upon the name a plaintiff gives to his or her cause of action.”
• “[a] defendant who performs an abnormally dangerous or ultrahazardous activity is subject to liability for harm to the person, land, or chattels of a plaintiff resulting from the activity even though the defendant has exercised the utmost care to prevent the harm”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).