Mr. J. R. Ware, a literary man, occupies the third
floor of 50 Lincoln's Inn Fields, and Mr. S. Corpe occupies the second. Mr. Corpe is musical, and recently put up an organ twelve feet high, ten feet wide, and four feet deep in his rooms, upon which he and his friends play, usually from seven to ten. The vibration is very great, and the smaller articles in the upper room shake with it. Mr. Ware, unable to endure the nuisance any longer, applied to the County Court of Westminster for an injunction to restrain Mr. Corpe from playing. The Judge, Mr. Baylis, however, decided that "although the nuisance was intoler- able, it was not actionable," and dismissed the application. The decision, if it turns out to be accurate, is a very unfortunate one for the lawyers. If it had gone the other way, ten thousand unhappy dwellers in the thin brick boxes called by speculative builders " houses " would have commenced actions at once, and civil war would have raged in all the suburbs of London. As it is, Mr. Ware had better hire a few acrobats to keep up a perpetual dance over Mr. Corpe's head.
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