A private person may maintain an action:

1. For a moral nuisance, if he be a resident citizen of the county, whether the nuisance complained of is specially injurious to him or not.

2. For any other public nuisance, if it is specially injurious to himself.

[(52-204) R.S., sec. 3633; reen. R.C., sec. 3665; am. 1915, ch. 43, sec. 4, p. 125; reen. C.L., sec. 3665; C.S., sec. 6433; I.C.A., sec. 51-204.]