Question

Mary, concerned with antibiotics and chemicals in the food supply, started to raise pigs in the backyard of her suburban home. She now has fourteen pigs that produce a significant amount of solid waste, which attracts insects and smells very bad. There are no town or county ordinances that specifically forbid raising pigs. Her neighbors should challenge her right to engage in this activity based on the tort of:

1.Intentional interference with a prospective business advantage
2.Intentional infliction of emotional distress
3.Nuisance
4.Trespass to land

Answer 1

Nuisance

Step-by-step explanation:

Nuisance is any act that prevent the occupant of a property from having a substantial or reasonable enjoyment of his stay as a result of careless use by another occupant or a neighbor.

The person whose satisfactory use of property is denied has the right to file a legal action for nuisance.

The raising of pigs in the backyard which has caused a polluted environment and an harmful living condition is considered a nuisance in this respect

Answer 2

3.Nuisance

Step-by-step explanation:

Tort of nuisance is divided into two types. First is the private nuisance where actions of one person is causing substantial interference with another person's land or his enjoyment of the land.

Second is public nuisance where a person's actions affects the reasonable convineince and comfort of another.

The neighbours can challenge her right to raise pigs based on the tort of public nuisance.