Nuisance \u2013 Fireworks \u2013 Physical Damage to Property<\/p>\n
The defendants, Kimbolton Fireworks, carried out a short firework display that lasted for some twenty minutes or so.\u00a0 As a result of the fireworks display, some burning debris landed on the claimant\u2019s river barge which had been moored on the river on their property, and set fire to it causing it damage.\u00a0 The area was rural, and the river boat was moored permanently in place.\u00a0 The claimants sued in private nuisance and the defendants alleged, firstly, that a nuisance could not be constituted in law by an action lasting only twenty minutes, and secondly that as it was a boat that was damaged and not their \u2018land\u2019 itself, this was not actionable in nuisance.<\/p>\n
Whether or not a nuisance could be constituted by even an act that was short in duration.\u00a0 If so, whether or not the claimant\u2019s had a cause of action considering that it was the defendant\u2019s river boat which was damaged rather than the underlying land itself as a result of the nuisance.<\/p>\n