STONE, J. An action on the case is the proper remedy for a personal injury, not directly produced, but consequent on the negligent conduct of another. It is equally the remedy for a nuisance, causing individual wrong, which is the consequence of some unauthorized act or omission of another. There is this wide difference in the two classes of cases : In the former, the tort or wrong, from which the injury results, expends its forc…
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