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lators are so well posted as to the possibilities of 
a certain manufacture that they may know that it 
cannot be so conducted as not to create a nuisance. 
A theatre is not a nuisance per se, and a declara- 
tion of a city would not make it so, unless it were 
in fact a nuisance¢ It is only when it is con- 
ducted in an improper manner, as to plays pro- 
duced, or as to the structure of the building, or its 
maintenance, that it could be generally considered 
a nuisance. It is a nuisance if it be not furnished 
with proper exits, or if it be improperly ventilated, 
or if the aisles be narrow and permitted to be 
filled; for in these cases human life is endangered. 
It may be a nuisance by reason of its detrimental 
effects upon the morals, especially of children, if 
the plays produced be of objectionable moral 
teaching. 
A large number of hogs kept on property adja- 
cent to a city, so that odors therefrom were of- 
fensive to people living in the neighborhood, and 
to those who passed along the streets, and im- 
paired the health of the citizens and diminished 
the value of their property, was found to be a 
public nuisance by the Kansas supreme court, 
which held that it should be perpetually enjoined.1” 
The maintenance of a hog ranch where garbage, 
ete., is to be fed may be at the same time a public 
and a private nuisance.'§ A private citizen is held 
entitled to sue to abate a nuisance, although the 
city charter authorized the common council to 
18 City of Chicago v. Weber, hearing overruled, 88 Kas. 164, 
246 Ill. 304, 92 N. EB. 859. 127 Pac. 540. 
17 Kansas City v. Sihler Hog 18 Seigle v. Bromley, 22 Col. 
Cholera Serum Co., 87 Kas. 786, App. 189, 124 Pac. 191. 
125 Pac. 70. Petition for re- 
