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Brief Fact Summary. For thirty years, a maker of confections conducted business in a property that use two large mortars that made a substantial amount of noise when operating. A physician, who previously had a garden in the area directly behind the mortar, decided to convert the garden into a consultation room.
- Hunt V. State
Citation69 A.3d 360 (Del. 2013) Brief Fact Summary....
- Stockett V. Tolin
Citation791 F. Supp. 1536 (S. D. Fla. 1992) Brief Fact...
- Hunt V. State
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The claimant, a doctor, moved house and on the premises, he bought and built a shed in his garden to carry out his private practice within. His shed was on the boundary of the property and happened to be next door to a confectioner. The confectioner had produced sweets in his kitchen for many years before the doctor had moved in. The doctor alleged...
Whether the doctor could claim loss of amenity when he had ‘moved to the nuisance’ or not. Whether the character of the area or locality as a residential area meant that there was a nuisance.
There was a nuisance, and the fact that the doctor had ‘moved to the nuisance’ was no defence to the nuisance itself. Nor was there an easement acquired by the confectioner through long usage that entitled him to continue with his actions. What constitutes a nuisance was to be decided on a case to case basis, and it is necessary to consider the par...
Apr 11, 2017 · The presiding judge famously said in this case “‘…what would be a nuisance in Belgrave Square would not necessarily be so in Bermondsey’”. In a case of a nuisance, a defendant can raise the defence of prescription if the cause of nuisance has been in existence for over 20 years.
Facts. The defendant was a confectioner whose premises neighboured the claimant’s home. The defendant used a noisy pestle and mortar from around 10am to around 1pm each day. This went on for more than twenty years without complaint. Then, the claimant built a consulting room for his medical practice at the end of his garden.
Get Sturges v. Bridgman, 11 Ch.D. 852 (1879), High Court of Justice, Court of Appeal, United Kingdom, case facts, key issues, and holdings and reasonings online today. Written and curated by real attorneys at Quimbee.
Sturges v Bridgman [1879] 11 Ch D 852 Court of Appeal The defendant ran a confectionary shop which operated a noisy pestle and mortar. It had done so for over 20 years but had no neighbouring property so there were no complaints as to its use.
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