0 0
New York Court of Appeals - 309 N.Y.S.2d 312, 26 N.Y.2d 219
Tags: Property, Nuisance, Permanent damages
The court found a cement plant to be a nuisance and awarded temporary damages but denied an injunction. The lower court's decision was erroneous as an injunction is required when damage from a nuisance is not unsubstantial. The court chose to grant the injunction conditioned on the payment of permanent damages to avoid closing down the plant. The proposed judgment will fully redress the plaintiffs' grievances, but public health or other public agencies can still seek proper relief in a proper court. The term "servitude" was used in United States v. Causby, relating to the effect of airplane noise on property near an airport.
The legal case involves a cement plant causing particulate contamination for at least 60 years, which damages the plaintiffs and harms the general public. The majority's decision to allow permanent damages instead of an injunction for substantial property rights impaired by a nuisance is disagreed upon by the dissenting opinion. The dissenting opinion argues that the long-standing rule is to enjoin a nuisance that results in substantial continuing damage to neighbors. The Air Pollution Control Act declares that it is the State policy to require the use of all available and reasonable methods to prevent and control air pollution. The cement company should not be allowed to continue polluting the air indefinitely upon the payment of permanent damages.
LSD+ gives you access to over 50,000 case briefs, more than anyone else. Be the first to email us the website of a case brief product that offers you more case briefs and we'll give you a free year of LSD+.
Unlimited access. Read as much content as you want during your trial with no device limitations. Cancel any time during your trial and keep access for the full 14 days.
Lawyers and judges love to use big words. And Latin, for some reason.
Highlight a legal term in LSD Briefs and get an instant, plain English definition. Try highlighting contract or specific performance. No need to search or read through a list of definitions, simply highlight the words you don’t know and our LSDefine integration will instantly give you a definition to any of over 30,000 legal terms.
DeepDive allows you to explore legal cases like never before. DeepDive offers multiple levels of case summaries, which empowers you to quickly and easily find the information you need to stay on top of readings. Easily navigate through summary levels and click on any text to get more detail, all the way down to the original legal case text.
Our proprietary state-of-the-art system can instantly brief over 6,000,000 US cases. That means we can probably brief that case that your professor assigned last night when she sent you a poorly scanned pdf and told you to read every third paragraph. Or maybe she uploaded it to Canvas and didn’t really tell you to read it, but you know you probably should. Tenure does wild things to good people.
Study groups are a great way to learn and explore a case. LSD has chat rooms for each case to let you ask questions across the community and hear what other students struggled with and how they put it all together. Learn the key points of every case from other LSD+ users and share your knowledge with LSD High Points.
Don’t settle for mistakes in briefs that have been there for 10 years and never fixed. Find an issue or something missing from a brief? Down vote and we will make improvements. All of our case brief editors graduated from from T14 law schools.