69 Miss. 31 | Miss. | 1891
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellee is the owner of a lot in the town of Canton,
The purpose of her bill is to compel the defendant to remove the obstructions from Franklin street, and for damages sustained by her. by reason of their existence.
The relief prayed is challenged by demurrer on the following grounds: First, that the obstructions complained of are, if a nuisance at all, a public nuisance, and that complainant has sustained no special injury authorizing her to maintain any action; second, that she cannot maintain a bill for injunction until she shall have recovered in an action at law; third, that she has an ample and complete remedy at law for all injury she has sustained. The court below overruled the demurrer, and from that decree the defendant appeals.
Though the obstruction of the street by the defendant may be a public nuisance, and liable to abatement as such,
The right of the complainant is clear, and its infraction manifest. The injury is of such nature that the remedy by, action at- law is incomplete, and under such circumstances the jurisdiction of equity is undoubted, without regard'to whether there has or has not been a recovery at law. Learned v. Hunt, 63 Miss., 373.
The decree is affirmed.