bill to abate public nuisance
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From 67 U.S. 485 - Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company v. Ward · 1862Most cited · 172 citing opinions
A bill in equity to abate a public nuisance, filed by one who has sustained special damages, has succeed to the former mode in England of an information in Chancery, prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, to abate or enjoin the nuisance as a preventive remedy. The private party sues rather as a public prosecutor than on his own account; and unless he shows that he has sustained, and is still sustaining, individual damage, he cannot be heard.