Wales Trucking Company v. Stallcup

How courts have described this case

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• noting that there was no unlawful, malicious, or negligent conduct in the case
• rejecting claim based on dust caused by defendant’s trucks as they drove on an unpaved public highway
• noting jury finding that “the plaintiffs lost temporary use of their house”
• “There is a general agreement that [nuisance] is incapable of any exact or comprehensive definition, and we shall attempt none here.”
• “There is a general agreement that [nuisance] is incapable of any exact or comprehensive definition, and we shall attempt none here.”
• government authorities have a duty to properly maintain public roads, and “have the corresponding power and responsibility to enact reasonable regulations for the use of streets and roads”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).