LAW REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 613, 16 September 1909, Page 11

LAW REPORTS.

[ SUPREME COURT, DAMAGES. FOR ALLEGED NUISANCE. PROXIMITY OF A 1 DAIRY COMPANY'S SIABLL, !'■ A casa was heard 'yesterday in tho Supremo k r ' ; ..fcharlotta^.Treadwoll claimed , : irom- the Wellington Dairy Co., • Ltd., the sum ' 6f:iS6so damages for alleged nuisance/ brought I'. ; abbu'fc,by. .the. existence of a,stablo. on tho de- , fcridanfc 'coiupany'3 property, adjoining tivo re,6idences.owned by''plaintiff,V ; Chapman' presided, and a special . jury .'of. twelve Was cmpaneiled: William Fergis- • \ .William Stewart -Wallace, Geo. f * - J/Guthrlo, Charles Leonard Cas«, Wil'ham Grant Tiaser, Edwin John Colley, Geo fl7>y,i ; Herbert: AVllliiiur Preston, William n-i?-• Stanloy Dickson,, I'liomas' William and'AVil- /' ~liaih; Alexander: Carniiiia. :. - ... ■ ' Johnston appeared: for plaintiff, i"fr'.Av'.Biftir. for the uefciulout' eoMpamv .coiuplaintv was [ that the' dof6ndaiit.com--3??% : tho'" ow'nei-s - of, a section of : W"W n >ng. that;of Mrs.' Treadwell m-Uiiza. W-.KM; -hwl; Greeted a,'large ,stablo. '.'■ i r £ff. w ? : . t*™'.'small: cottages at 54 ;. ;; ? n <}-: 5 . 6 Street; in one i'of which: she . r jadj resided. ,1 he stablo of tho defendant comwithin 2ft. 7in. of ono of the ' sinel 1 from. tlio .stables,■ especiV-: the .suiiimer, ;Combiued. with tho i ■ *?•''?,i' ,u, rank' carts aiid cans, arid *,tho ;. ffW;!.'., 1 nieni'ihad' becomo-intolerable w).and lior tenants.Tho noises !woro i :. mpst,objectionable .in tho early mornings. In .:.cbasemieuce, plaintiif.alleged-. that tho two.cot- ;; v ddterioraMd.-in value, and could not .to:tho,;extent of ,£650.' wore j l a . l -?.9?> ;tpg®theif-with ■ an. ibjunction '■M '£ ■ defendant. cbmpaiiyV;from: using'. the Etablp. in. such a :way as, : to occasion a nuisanco 1.",;; ;: l : toi plain tiff' of her' tenants;.:.;' 'r. : ; . . 'by: the ; dofendarit'; company j that'stables hndbcen erected oir property adjoinihg. tbat .of tho plaintittV bufc the' Company '' r :■ demed-thttt'any; nuisanco;- or. discomfort had v mi o '' '-: c^! to. plairiti IF. or rto -.;her.'; tonants. f liiight baa.sligtitsuipll inevitably con--1 ..nected,.With auystable;,but it.was strenuously v-denied-that; any nuisancp 'liad been caused to ■•* , ; <ccrtbiors .of tho' adjoining properties. TIIO I;etabl6;#as so.constnlctod, as:'to. prevent' any- , .' thing ;'of; the. kind, and a brick wall 18 inches ; it.;from plaintiff's liouse. :'To ;■>„ v v v!^this;Jitter, statement, plaintiff, ropliod.that the ..had:.excava*ed -.under'.the i(^ i!, .W'il n nd.part;bf it- had/been .knocked''down, ■>:' Bb.-.;_that-' horses ' .continually came. through into ••Iplaintiff's garden. ; Charlottu, Treadwell, plaintiff, deposed that |;)v, BhoVboUght ;tho; property 23 years, ago, and 'it : v ; :was;h6r.s6le; soured of income, Being .widowed, she.residej .with-herjfaniily. iii"tho front hoiiso, ', . lotting 'the .other dwelling furnisliod at SSa. -por ;. woek.v When tho family grew up and left hoino t ; into,'.tho.)back -honse,' and i let tho i . frbnt-.qtio furnished at. a weokly .reiital of 455. j.:;;; «EtlflJ,j:iri_ : ;i!loßj :the ;.defendant .' company ;bought adjoining 'property..and . erected'stables ;on ~. it.;;; .The: smell'.was"so'. olfensiTO that .witness . ! ' Wascompelled to : leave ..he? ihoiiso ;antT go to ?J! higj>«r}.ue."'Su>eo tlion she hnd not tried to 'let tlie back houso, -; h, 6he .eould -not ask ahyone "to live thero, ; y.v l.tHe: ,froht^ ■'■ lionse had been occupied .for .;only a'.few weoks at a'time/," ; '■.. v ' To | Mr.-Blair: It.was truo that some of the '■ii'lr neighbours took' ho :' to the stablo, anil that one housewife said- it gavo out a good •hdMthy:'sracll." ' - '. V. ;Evidenco'of neighbours:and- land agonts wntendered' with, a view to establishing that the .r - stable iwas" .anuisanceto'' residents of the locality, , 1 ■ :Tho;heanng of-evidence for the defenco -wa; •- !;begun,. and will be continued to-day.