Page County Appliance Center, Inc. v. Honeywell, Inc.
Supreme Court of Iowa
347 N.W.2d 171 (Iowa 1984)
Page County Appliance Center (plaintiff) sued ITT and Honeywell (defendants) for nuisance after discovering that computer equipment operated by a nearby business, using ITT's Honeywell-manufactured computer, was interfering with television picture quality in its store; the trial court instructed the jury on nuisance but did not define unreasonableness, the substantial-factor requirement, or whether selling televisions was an unusually sensitive property use, and the jury found for Appliance Center, prompting the defendants' appeal.
Whether jury instructions in a nuisance claim are adequate if they do not fully explain the unreasonableness requirement or the substantial-factor contribution requirement.