Blasting

A mode of rending rock and other solid substances by means of explo sives. Blasting rock in the city of New York is necessary and therefore legal; Gourdier v. Cormack, 2 E. D. Sm. (N. Y.) 254; Wiener v. Hammell, 14 N. Y. Supp. 365. It is a useful and often a necessary means for the improvement of land, and where it does not amount to a nuisance, the person is answerable only if negligent; Klepsch v. Donald, 4 Wash. 436, 30 Pac. 991, 31 Am. St. Rep. 936. Absolute liability is imposed on the keeper of dangerous explosives only when by reason of the location and surrounding circumstances the magazine is a nuisance; Heeg v. Licht, 80 N. Y. 579, 36 Am. Rep. 654. Many cases hold that injuries to a house caused by pulsations of the earth, vibrations of the air, and jarring the house will not render the one blasting liable therefor; Simon v. Henry, 62 N. J. L. 486, 41 Atl. 692; Benner v. Dredging Co., 134 N. Y. 156, 31 N. E. 328, 17 L. R. A. 220, 30 Am. St. Rep. 649; Holland House Co. v. Baird, 169 N. Y. 136, 62 N. E. A. (N. S.) 389; in the absence of negligence on his part; id.; contra, Fitz Simons & Connell Co. v. Braun, 199 111. 390, 65 N. E. 249, 59