East Texans fought back and won when a chicken farm - and its smells - moved in
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- Опубліковано 5 тра 2022
- A judge closed it. Now, the Texas Supreme Court has been asked to decide if it should reopen in a case with statewide ramifications for landowners and homeowners.
Mersini Blanchard says the first clue a fowl neighbor had moved in was the foul smell.
She thought at first there was a dead animal nearby.
Blanchard and her neighbors would soon realize the smell was coming from a newly built chicken farm, just over a mile from her Malakoff home in Henderson County, about 70 miles southeast of Dallas.
“Sometimes it’s so bad … you cannot come outside to enjoy your property anymore,” Blanchard said.
Appraisal district and court records show the value of the family’s home and 1,200 acres of surrounding property plunged 75 percent after the chicken farm - and the smell - moved in.
“I was going to be stuck with a piece of property here that would basically be worthless,” said Mersini’s son, Frank Blanchard, a Dallas custom home builder.
Frustrated, the Blanchards and their neighbors banded together to file a nuisance lawsuit. They asked that the chicken farm operation be shut down.
In 2019, a jury sided with them, finding the farm was a nuisance to the neighbors. Henderson County District Judge Scott McKee ordered that the chicken farm operation be closed.
“Defendants deny a nuisance exists and have either taken no or insufficient measures to reduce the odor pollution...,” Judge McKee wrote.
Almost two years after the farm operation was shuttered, neighbors worry the smells could return. Sanderson Farms, which supplies chickens to the farm, has appealed the case.
Now before the Texas Supreme Court, any ruling will have potential ramifications for homeowners’ and landowners’ rights across the state.
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These companies to stop spending money in court instead invest in air quality control
Jesus Christ....that Farmer must have had to a massive bank loan to even built his farm and just like that , he lost everything...... Just because of people from other properties complain about bad smells.
Imagine someone taking on the challenge to clear and purify the air around the factory imagine the magnitude of such a thing
It's not that bad I work on one just get used to it
If the location operated in compliance with the current laws, rules and regulations; Then I disagree with the judge. What we have is basically a group of people who are ok with the problem as long as it's someone other than them that have to deal with it. Not once did a violation be presented. Not one health risk was presented. If the laws need to change, so be it.
Wow, hope yall like eating crickets.
The recent Prop 1 should fix this problem. Farmers need to farm.
Good for them. It smells soo bad. Chicken farm smells. I always feel bad for the people that have to live near one. The smell goes for miles and this really isn’t exaggeration.
Close it down,animal abuse.Disgusting.
I know someone close to this case.
Americans want their chicken and eat it too. Boycot the company and companies it does business with....oh but you all want to eat your chicken nuggets and chicken sandwiches!
People quit complaining, my papa has chicken houses and I’m not suing him am I people just get used to
60 days with no cleanings of the bedding and new bedding being put in is inhumane living conditions for the chickens. Plus a chickens per every square foot, these chickens are literally living on there own feces.👎👎
Sanderson Farms brought us one of these lovely installations to our small community in Mineola. What a joy to have the stench.
It do smell bad, but i love chicken
NO TO SANDERSON FARMS!
End this corporate greed!
Wish i had a rich family
My neighbor has 16 of them in there field
It shouldn't shut down just cause somebody's house Value is going to go Down that's Their Problem..🤔🤔