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smith, via Crown road, rendered it desirable to improve the entrance
to Crown road, from the Fulham Palace road, and the corner plot
of land being for sale it was purchased by the Board, and a bell
mouth entrance to Crown road has been made. The Board is about
to sell the surplus land, and expects to receive from the Metropolitan
Board a contribution of one half the net cost.
Action against the Manbre Saccharine Company.
The Board having received repeated complaints from a large
number of ratepayers in Queen street and Fulham road of a nuisance
alleged to proceed from the works of the Manbre Saccharine
Company, commenced an action in the Chancery division to restrain
the Company from carrying on the manufacture of sugar in such a
way as to occasion a nuisance to the public.
The Company subsequently expended a large sum of money in
alterations and improvements in their machinery and apparatus and
for a period of several months the nuisance was stopped and the proceedings
would have then been stayed had not the works again for
a time become a nuisance.
The action having been transferred to the Queen's Bench Division
came on for trial in April, 1883, before Lord Chief Justice Coleridge
and a special Jury, when after five days hearing the Jury found by
their verdict that the Company had never caused any nuisance.
This was directly in conflict with the evidence of more than twenty
witnesses of standing, resident in the neighbourhood, most of whom
had visited the Company's works and identified the stench at such
works as the same stench which constituted the nuisance which
they and their neighbours complained of, and in conflict with the
evidence of medical and scientific witnesses who proved the detrimental
nature of the emanations from the Company's works.
Nuisance at Hammersmith Station—Manufacture of Gas.
In the last annual report reference was made to the action taken
by the Board in the Chancery Division against the Metropolitan
Railway Company, and it was reported that on the trial of the
action Mr Justice Chitty granted a perpetual injunction restraining
the Company from manufacturing or permitting to be manufactured
and from using or permitting to be used, Gas at or near the Broadway
station in such a manner as to be or create a nuisance to the
public.
In consequence of this injunction the Company for some months
discontinued the manufacture of Gas at the Station, but afterwards
having made some alterations in their machinery they recommenced
the manufacture in October, 1882.
In a short time the nuisance became as bad as ever, and the
Board gave notice that they would move the Court for a sequestration
of the property of the Company, upon which the Company