NOISY ROOSTERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 December 1929, Page 5

NOISY ROOSTERS

INJUNCTION AGAINST DOCTOR. An injunction was granted in Brisbane recently in the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Douglas against D . T. Ferguson, restraining him from keeping roosters at his home at South Brisbane, so as to cause a nuisance to three maiden sisters. The sisters complained to the couit that owing to the shrill crowing ot the roosters next door to their place they could not sleep at night. Plaintiffs were Edith, Valerie and Wanda Ruthning. ~ . Giving judgment, his Honor said he thought that Edith and Valerie Ruthning did not sleep as well as the average person; and that in .consequence they had been caused more discomfort and annoyance than would have been suffered by most people. There was nothing whatever to indicate that Wanda Ruthning was not a sound sleeper. On the evening, the Judge said, he was satisfied that the cocks kept by the defendant were causing so much noise by their crowing at all hours of the night that they were continuing to seriously interfere with the comfort physically of plaintiffs, according to ordinary notions prevalent among people of this country. Defendant had insisted n his right to keep these cocks in the present fowlhouse, notwithstanding that he knew he was causing plaintiff’s material discomfort iand Inconvenience,