Barras v. Hebert’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “La.C.C. Art. 667 provides: Although a proprietor may do with his estate whatever he pleases, still he can not make any work on it, which may deprive his neighbor of the liberty to enjoying his own, or which may be the cause of damage to him. La.C.C. Art. 668 provides: Although one be not at liberty to make any work by which his neighbor's buildings may be damaged, yet every one has the liberty of doing on his own ground whatsoever he pleases, although it should occasion some inconvenience to his neighbor. Thus he who is not subject to any servitude originating from a particular agreement in that respect, may raise his house as high as he pleases, although by such elevation he should darken the lights of his neighbors's [neighbor's] house, because this act occasions only an inconvenience, but not a real damage. La.C.C. Art. 669 provides: If the works or materials for any manufactory or other operation, cause an inconvenience to those in the same or neighboring houses, by diffusing smoke or nauseous smell, and there be no servitude established by which they are regulated, their sufferance must be determined by the rules of the police, or the customs of the place.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 671 So. 2d 1186 - Barrett v. TL James & Co.