Court Opinion

ID: 9573035
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:46:56.337207+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:36:09.997064
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McCown, J.,
dissenting.
The majority opinion now holds that evidence of intolerable odors and a substantial increase in flies is sufficient to constitute a prima facie case for the granting of a mandatory injunction against a cattle fe'edlot op*518eration in a wholly rural area, without any evidence that a cattle feedlot can be operated in a different method or manner which will not produce excessive odors and flies.
The court assumes that feeding 1,100 cattle does not constitute a nuisance, but the feeding of 3,746 cattle does. That in itself would not constitute a problem if there were evidence to establish that a feedlot of a larger size could be operated in a fashion which would not produce odors and flies to the degree that it constituted a nuisance. That evidence is wholly lacking here and the majority opinion simply assumes that a large cattle feeding operation can be reasonably conducted without excessive odors and flies. The record wholly fails to establish that fact, and there is no basis whatever for taking judicial notice of facts which the plaintiffs failed to prove. Plaintiffs had their opportunity to prove those facts and did not do so. They failed to establish a prima facie case and there is no justification for letting them try again.
For other matters involved, see my dissent in Botsch v. Leigh Land Co., ante p. 54, 236 N. W. 2d 815.
White, C. J., joins in this dissent.