sovereign nuisance demand
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 206 U.S. 230 - Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co. · 1907Most cited · 526 citing opinions
It is a fair and reasonable demand on the part of a sovereign that the air over its territory should not be polluted on a great scale by sulphurous acid gas, that the forests on its mountains, be they better or worse, and whatever domestic destruction they have suffered, should not be further destroyed or threatened by the act of persons beyond its control, that the crops and orchards on its hills should not be endangered from the same source.
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