Supreme Court of Alabama April 28, 1906 (Central Iron & Coal Co. v. Vandenheuk)

ANDERSON, J.

It is an elementary principle in reference to private rights that every individual is entitled to the undisturbed possession and enjoyment of his own property. The mode of enjoyment is necessarily limited by the rights of others; otherwise, it might be made destructive to their rights altogether. In the case of Hay v. Cohoes, 2 N. Y. 159, 51 Am. Dec.