Case Name: RAMSAY v. RIDDLE et al.
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1807-04
Citations: 20 F. Cas. 212
Docket Number: 
Parties: RAMSAY v. RIDDLE et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 20
Pages: 212–213

Head Matter:
Case No. 11,644.
RAMSAY v. RIDDLE et al.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 399.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1807.
Nuisance—Injunction-^Bakebouse^
The court will not enjoin what may or may not be nuisance.
Motion to dissolve an injunction to restrain [Riddle & Thornton] - from converting a. wooden warehouse into a bakehouse.
F. L. Lee and C. Lee, for plaintiffs,
in support of the injunction, cited 1‘Fon.bl. 29; Amb. 159; 2 Yes. Sr. 452; Amb. 209; 2 Brown, Ch. 64; Mitf. 103, 107; 3 Inst 201; 3 Bl. Comm. 21G; Ld. Raym. 486; Wood, Inst. 538; Cro. Car. 306 ; 2 Show. 327; Strange, 1167; 12 Mod. 342; 16 Yin. 23.
E. J. Lee and Mr. Swann, contra,
cited 4 Bl. Comm. 108; 1 Hawk. c. 75, § 12; 3 Bl. Comm. 219; Id. 5; 1 Hawk. c. 75; 3 Atk. 21; 12 Mod. 510; 3 Atk. 750; 1 Fonbl. 21, 29, 30; 4 Brown, Ch. 105; 2 Yes. Jr. 42; 16 Yin. 23; 2 Har. Ch. 237.
Mr. Jones, for plaintiffs,
cited Fran. Max. 30; 1 Burrows, 334; 6 Mod. 145; Bac. Abr. tit. “Nuisance."
The injunction was dissolved without costs <nem. eon.).

Opinion:
THE COURT
said, if the house in fitting up, should not be well secured against danger from fire, it might be the ground of an injunction to prevent the use of it as a bakehouse.